got it booting! got it nfsmounting / and have a console up.

It is thought of some that I won’t be able to get X going under NetBSD. I’ll give it a try (there’s some almost-docs outh there). If it doesn’t work, then maybe I’ll just have to settle for headless stations, or try another OS.

It looks like I can get a hobbiests license for OpenVMS from HP. This could be cool too. Sholud be able to get X11 going on it and connect to my debian box.

64MB ram should be enough for some tasks :)

On a down side, it looks like one of the screens doesn’t work. Hopefully it’s just a fuse or something. Hopefully it doesn’t explode while i’m fiddling with it too….

Could get Digital UNIX/OSF/True64 and run it too… basically I just want an X terminal with this lovely big screen :)

A linux port could be (sort of) possible… apparently there’s some TurboChannel support in the kernel for MIPS, just not for alpha. If what I’ve been told is correct, and NetBSD just feeds IO through the firmware (for console output), then I should be able to get linux to do the same trick so I don’t have to use a serial dongle to get a serial terminal going.

There is a start on Debian/NetBSD, which could be interesting, but currently it’s only one guy hacking. I’ve offerred to test at least :)