Archive for the ‘Notes’ Category

Things To Do In Prineville, OR

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

My great-uncle Pat lives there, I’m trying to take my father up there
to visit!

Anything else?

Good Indoor Plants?

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

I have a few, I’m looking for a few more. Something
that likes very low light, something nice and green.

Someplace I read that these were good indoor plants:

My Alpha 164SX

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

Her name is nikita, and she isn’t quite alive yet. She is a 164SX with
128MB of non-ECC RAM. She is too loud for my apartment, when I can
lock it away in a closet I’ll find something for her to do. These are
some notes so I remember what to do next time I want to netboot her.

I was elated to find that I could netboot using the Intel 82559 that I
had. At various times I’ve had Debian and
NetBSD installed. NetBSD seems to be the
easiest to install.

Stolen from some DEC thing:
AlphaPC 164SX supports the Digital Semiconductor 21164PC Alpha
microprocessor that operates at speeds of 400, 466, and 533 MHz.

164SX Technical Manual

Netbooting

Boot using BOOTP:
boot -proto bootp eia0 -fl "console=ttyS0"

Boot (using BOOTP) into “interactive” aboot:
boot -proto bootp eia0 -fl "i"

Links

Some links about booting and the SRM firmware: