[PLUTO-refun] recupero alpha station 500 ( modello nero desktop )

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Sono in possesso di una mitica Alpha Station 500   ( superacessoriata full ram sia di sistema che video ).

La macchina ovviamente ha installato un Digital visual Unix presumibilmente del 1997 di cui non sono in possesso delle password sia di accesso che di amministratore.

Ho tentato di fare riconoscere alla baracca un altro disco scasi da 9 giga ( tentativo di farla bootstrappare da un nuovo HD ) ovviamente senza sucesso perchè quello che immagino possa essere una specie di BIOS non ha l'autodetect, o per lo meno io non capisco se lo ha.

Per certo so che il sistema può funzionare con win NT ( presumo quindi che una volta installato si possa aggiornare con un win xp  ( o comunque si possa installare un linux ).


Domanda:   come cazz....biiiippp.....   faccio a istallare sto maledetto win di mer...bipppppp....che sono settimane che ....biiiipppp....
mi sta facendo impazzire.....biiiipppp.......bipppppp.....    ....e .....biiiippppp. 
Per cortesia...prima che mi si spalachino le porte dell'inferno a forza di parolacce....datemi una mano a risolvere la questione.

Vi allego in PDF la poca documentazione che ho trovato in internet.

Grazie.
Marco Gottardo


stralcio della documentazione:  cosa devo fare ber entrare nella ARC console?
Mi sapete fornire una procedura di installazione?

ARC Console

The ARC console supports the use of the Windows NT operating system. The ARC

console uses a menu interface. When an AlphaStation 500 Series system with Windows

NT is turned on, a menu similar to the following displays after initialization:

ARC Multiboot Alpha AXP Version 4.xx

Copyright (c) 1993 - 1995 Microsoft Corporation

Copyright (c) 1993 - 1995 Digital Equipment Corporation

Boot menu:

Boot Windows NT

Boot an alternate operating system

Run a program

Supplementary menu...





System Firmware

The AlphaStation 500 Series system contains four flashROMs, two with ARC console

firmware (for the Windows NT operating system) and two with SRM console firmware

(for the Digital UNIX and OpenVMS operating systems). Refer to the Alpha Systems

Firmware Update documentation that is contained on the Firmware Update CD for

compatible firmware and operating system versions.



Starting an Operating System

Installation

Introduction

This appendix provides the information you need to begin an operating system installation.

After you have started an installation, you can complete it by following on-screen

instructions and referring to the appropriate operating system documentation.

Using the table below, first locate the operating system you want to install and refer to the

appropriate table number.

If you want to install: Go to Table:

Install Window NT Workstation on a

properly partitioned and formatted disk.

Table F-1

Set up partitions for a Windows NT

Workstation installation

Table F-2

Digital UNIX Table F-3

OpenVMS Table F-4







Starting an Operating System Installation

F-2 AlphaStation 500 Series User Information

________________________CAUTION __________________________

If you boot from a Digital UNIX or Open VMS disk and also occasionally boot

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation from another disk, use caution when you

run the Windows NT Disk Administrator. When the Disk Administrator detects

additional disks, it updates the system configuration. The Disk Administrator

prompts you for permission to write a signature to the additional disks. Writing

the signature to a Digital UNIX or Open VMS disk destroys the boot block on

that disk and makes the operating system on that disk no longer bootable. Select

NO when you are asked if you want to write a signature to your Digital UNIX or

Open VMS disks.

___________________________________________________________

Starting a Windows NT Workstation Installation

Digital partitions and formats disk 0 on the first SCSI controller in non-RAID Windows

NT Workstation systems. The partitions are set up as follows:

· Partition 1 (typically, the "C" drive) is the size of the disk less 10 MB and formatted

FAT. Normally, you select "convert to NTFS" during the Windows NT installation.

· Partition 2 (typically the "D" drive) is 10 MB, formatted FAT, and identified as the

system partition.

Refer to Table F-1 for the steps to start installing Windows NT Workstation on a properly

partitioned and formatted disk.

_________________________ NOTE____________________________

The ARC console must be installed and running in order to perform a Windows

NT installation. If the SRM console is running, refer to Appendix E, Updating

System Firmware, for the instructions to load the ARC firmware.

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