[NTLUG:Discuss] Alphaserver 2100

[Kevin Marvin]

:)

It was less than 10 years ago, and to be fair they were a good small /
medium biz machine if you were running a VMS or TruUnix app.  When I got my
hands on them and installed NT, they were a bit long in the tooth, but to us
intel folks quite a novelty.  My 433 isnt very fast at all, but I blame that
in part on the drives in the box and what I was using it for.  Your 4-way
still has quite a bit of compute power, and makes a great conversation piece
when folks mistake it for a fridge ;)

All in all, you got a good box, mon frer.  Install, fight with it, and have
fun.

- Kevin

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So I'm imagining that back in the day (10 years ago) these things were the
cream of the crop?
 

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Collin:

I have worked with the DEC 2100 before, but only ran NT on it.  I do have,
however, a DEC PW 433 at home that I run an older Red Hat distro on from
time to time.

Finding software for your platform will not be easy, but I would suggest you
start with http://www.alphalinux.org/ and take a look there.  The part of
the install that gave me the most trouble was the bootloader, which is in
effect separate from the LILO / GRUB loaders.  I know that Alpha based
releases of different distro's exist, and Red Hat has maintained theirs for
some time (although I don't know if they do currently support it).

Understand that outside of the base packages you will have to compile
everything, but that 2100 that you have will make a fine server.  It wont be
terribly fast, but it will be capable of handling plenty of load.

Just pray it doesn't break, parts are not cheap for it :)

If you have any other questions, or need a hand, let me know.

- Kevin

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Hey,
I just purchased a Compaq Alphaserver 2100 and was wondering if anybody has
any experience with these, or basically... any advice as to what to do with
it.  From what I've gathered it's a 4 processor DEC Alpha based system with
275MHz CPU's.  I've some some various reports of running Redhat 7.1/2 on
these machines, but the majority of OS's that are reported as running are
Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix. FreeBSD and OpenVMS.  I've never owned a server
before and any advice or knowledge that anybody has would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Collin.=


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