J. Pedro Sousa do Amaral (amaral@dynbis050.dynamic.cst.cmich.edu)
Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:23:49 -0400
> Why buy the official one then? Just get your friendly local person with a
> CD Writer
> to write you a GPL version.
>
> I bought RH5.1/Alpha, had problems registering it and didn't get anything in
> the way of help as I remember.
>
> I won't be buying the official version again.
I second the motion and applaud. I have been trying to get all the
distribution rpms for Alpha, but it seems that as of 7:34 EDT only i386 and
sparc have been mirrored, even at gatekeeper (isn't the first letter of
alpha an a?).
Anyway, I am planning to burn the distribution onto a CD, and initially I
wasn't too worried about making bootable, but now I am considering it. Last
night I made a thorough web search, but I could only come out with the
CD-ROM HOWTO.
Therefore I was quite happy when I read:
> For up to 5.2/AXP this was valid(*): Grap all the necessary stuff from an
> ftp mirror near you, execpt the /dev directory, which you should grab
> directly from ftp.redhat.com with on-the-fly-tar, otherwise you
> won't get real device nodes.
>
> Pertain the directory structure. The RedHat directory belongs to the
> root of the CD.
>
> This is all what's needed for ARC and AlphaBIOS. To make it bootable
> by SRM, you need to grep the aboot package, and make it boot
> '/misc/bootlx', I believe.
I have a few questions about the above instructions:
What is on-the-fly-tar? I am assuming that it is a combination of tar and
rsh, but don't really know how to do it.
What is "grep the aboot package"?
Could you please point me to where I can find answers to these questions?
I known that the members of this list usually frown upon this type of
questions, thus feel free to answer to this message privately and I will
send a summary to those who asked similar questions.
Thank you,
ZP
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