Jose Luis Rivero (YosWinK) wrote:  [Sat Jul 21 2007, 03:17:01PM EDT]
> > Donations
> > ----------
> >
> > Hardware donations are always welcome. We will gladly accept spare alpha
> > hardware. We are specially looking for desktops systems which aren't too
> > big to keep them in a house. That's because we lack the resources to
> > test some software which needs to have physical contact with the box
> > (cd-writers, sound, bootloaders, kernels, etc.).

Hi Jose,

In case you're unaware of this "feature", alpha systems can boot from
disks as if they're CDs.  For example:

  # dd if=foo.iso of=/dev/sda
  # halt

Then at the SRM prompt, boot from the appropriate disk.  The SRM will
recognize the iso image and boot from it as if it were a CD-ROM.  This
can be extremely useful for testing iso images.

Just be careful you don't overwrite a disk you care about, of course.
 :-) 

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Aron