Comments on: AXP64 2210 Installation Media Reconstruction

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:15:08 +0000

In reply to Wee Knee. should be an option from arcinst to create a system partition. It doesn't need to be that big, 30Mb is more than enough depending on the version. It has to be FAT. It should be easy enough, assuming it's seeing your hard disk(s).

By: Wee Knee

Wee Knee — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:05:07 +0000

Hey guys.
I found a reasonable priced Alphaserver 1200 on which i’d like to get any version of Windows NT/2000 running.
Sadly i didn’t have any luck installing any version (Also with this specific AXP64 version), because it’s always complaining about the missing system partition. I tried setting up via express setup from the bios and also through arcinst, always resulting in the same error.
Which trick is involved to get this installed?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 16:38:47 +0000

In reply to Bert.

damn. we dont have much to test at the moment its sadly been a bit of a bust…

#virtuallyfun on libera.chat although the bridge crashes all the time now.

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 12:59:15 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Discord just doesn't work from here, i get repeatedly thrown to the captcha page and as soon as i completed a signup the account got immediately disabled before i was even able to do anything with it. Likely down to CGNAT and some activities from other users.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 22:02:09 +0000

In reply to Bert.

On the discord this weekend we are doing a porting party! … since there isn’t much 64bit software and it can only be compiled from a 32bit machine I’ve got my alpha up as a 32bit compiler machine and there should be other people to test and whatnot.

I’ts cool you got yours up and running!

the boards would have saved me so much pain and agony, but I’m sure plenty of people can use them too! 🙂

There is a surprising amount of interest i this early checked 64bit build!

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 21:31:30 +0000

Wow never thought i’d see this.. Pulled some of my old alpha kit out the garage to try this and got it successfully installed on a PWS 600au. It does seem to freeze up whenever i try to open control panel but otherwise runs ok.

I’m wondering if there’s any way to enable RDP for remote access? The DLLs seem to be present in the AXP64 version, but i could never get it working on the 2k RCs. I only have the server builds 2072, seems build 2128 is workstation only and lacks RDP.

Wondering why the pre 64bit bins won’t run.. There was never a 32bit version of Alpha, and it was only a compiler flag (-taso IIRC) that provided some level of compatibility for code that got upset with 64bit pointers by only supporting the first 31 bits and ignoring the rest. At least on Linux and Tru64 binaries compiled with -taso could be freely run alongside regular 64bit binaries, but no idea what MS might have done.

I also have a spare PWS500/au motherboard, cpu (w/cache) and busboard if it might be of use to anyone?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:44:28 +0000

In reply to Justanewuser.

run axp64\setupldr

https://youtu.be/QBJvm55cuiY

By: Justanewuser

Justanewuser — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:08:53 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Then?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:28:14 +0000

In reply to Justanewuser. First you need a Dec Alpha

By: Justanewuser

Justanewuser — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:07:32 +0000

How can i boot this build’s setup?