Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux

[Hoover, Tony]

You can boot from a small narrow SCSI drive, and have most of your directory
structure on your wide SCSI drives that are attached to the Adaptec
controller.  Or you could acquire a SCSI controller that is based on an
LSI/Symbios 53C875 or a Qlogic 1040.  Both of those wide SCSI controllers
should be supported in SRM.

I've never played with netbooting, so I can't comment on that
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Tony Hoover, Network Administrator 
KSU - Salina, College of Technology
(785) 826-2660

"Don't Blend in..."
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> Subject: 	Alpha Newbie needs help netbooting linux 
> 
> Hi all,
> I've got several Alphaserver 2100 that needs to be retrofitted with newer
> scsi drives so I can put Linux on it as a cluster. The scsi card that came
> with the machine is too old and doesn't seems to support newer scsi
> drives, so I tried to add adaptec 2940U2W series cards into them.
> However, the SRM bios can't see them but once I boot into Linux using RH
> CD images, the drives are totally functional, which means I can't use them
> as  bootdisks, and since the original drives from digital are mostly
> failing,  I need to rely on netboot to serve the boot images, then I can
> access all the files on local disks.
> 
> Can someone give me a few pointers on how to do it ?
> I've been googling for quite a few days and have yet to find anything
> helpful :(
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Tim.
> 
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