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arturo.digioia
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 Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 9:57 am Post subject: Gentoo on Alpha, newbie question |
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I've got an old Digital Personal Workstation 433au (128MB Ram, ~4 GB HD). I'm thinking about trashing the Tru64 OS on it and try installing Linux (nobody else uses this box, maybe it could still get its job done as a backup machine, cvs server with minimal X, WindowMaker an latex system, plus compilers). I never touched an Alpha architecture. I'd like to have Gentoo on it (just because if it works like on x86 it will be a charm to mantain after having installed it). I suppose I've got enough space for a minimal system. Probably I could export some dirs via NFS from my main x86 box (/usr/portage, /home). Is it a viable way. I'll start from the links reported in the first post on a previous thread (the one on the Alphaserver 1000). Is there anything else I must read before touching thet box ()? I'd like to receive suggestions like 'Ah, if only I had read xxx-HOWTO before screwing up everything!' 
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arturo.digioia
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2003 10:01 am Post subject: |
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I'm reading the previos threads, probably the best answer to my previous question should be 'RTFF'.
There are enough details on the topic in many other posts, so please forgive me for the useless question. |
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taviso
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| arturo.digioia wrote: | | I'm reading the previos threads, probably the best answer to my previous question should be 'RTFF'. |
Theres some info there, but beware a lot of it is out of date. New documentation is coming very soon!
| arturo.digioia wrote: | | There are enough details on the topic in many other posts, so please forgive me for the useless question. |
Not a useless question at all, theres no user documentation on installation available yet and there should be. Until its ready i would reccomend subscribing to the gentoo-alpha mailing list (low volume).
btw, it will work like gentoo on x86, you wont be dissapointed |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Today I got myself a very similar machine as arturo, a Digital PW433au, and of course I want to put Gentoo linux on it. At the moment I am reading the relevant threads and docs. I'm happy to have found http://cvs.gentoo.org/~taviso/alpha-install.html but I sense a problem there: the section on installing aboot is still empty. Can anyone point me to a thread or doc where this is explained? Or tell me how to do it? |
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tgkee
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 8:39 pm Post subject: SRM howto |
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The SRM howto (http://www.tldp.org) provides some useful information.
Quick guide:
1 - install aboot
2 - setup /etc/aboot.conf
Just installed Gentoo on PWS500, still some work with bootloader, but it looks good. |
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yngwin
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 9:45 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I hadn't thought of looking in tldp, but that howto is indeed a treasure. Now I'm waiting for the key from HP so I can use ccc for bootstrapping &c. |
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Da Geek
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