On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 21:50:36 +0800
Stefan van der Eijk <stefan@eijk.nu> wrote:
> >My alpha axp has only 16 Mb ram.
> >
> Ai... that's not a lot of ram... What type of machine is it? I'm not
> sure if alpha cooker will run on old alpha's ( < ev5).
166 MHz 21066 CPU
16MB RAM (70ns, 72 pin, 36 bit parity SIMM)
21030 PCI based 2MB TGA high performance graphics accelerator
500 meg HD (ide)
floppydrive
And some Isa nic
> >Is that enough to try Cooker on, or should I better go with Mdk 7.1
> >then, and upgrade to Cooker once it's running.
> >
> I used RedHat's rawhide distro, and then started rebuilding the
packages
> (the last time I checked alpha-cooker hadn't been updated for some
time).
>
> >I'm planning on an nfs install here.
> >
> I don't know if the installer is working yet, I've yet to test this.
Seems like I'm testing it also then. Hmm..
> >According to this message I could best wait for the mirrors to
update
> >with this kernel:
> >
> It's running fine on my box. i only bumped into a few issues when
> migrating from the rawhide kernel:
> - Mandrake doesn't support ext2 labels, so I had to edit /etc/fstab
and
> tell it to mount /dev/sda2 on /
> - I had to setup the initrd since the rawhide kernel has the scsi
> drivers compiled in.
Ok, so I can try it anyway then.
If Cooker doesn't work out, I'll first try the 7.1 option
-- Marcel Pol mpol@gmx.net
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