Re: [Cooker] Installing on Alpha's

[Geoffrey Lee]

Yo,

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:53:39AM +, Mark Polsen wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Is there anybody out there that has successfully installed Cooker 
 or a 7.X version (beta or ?) on an Aplha. I'm currently looking into
 replacing OSF/1 on an Aspen Durango 500 with Mandrake.
 

Well basically the Alpha remains unsupported, the latest  ISO for alpha is 7.1.

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Re: [Cooker] Installing on Alpha's

[Stefan van der Eijk]

 Is there anybody out there that has successfully installed Cooker
 or a 7.X version (beta or ?) on an Aplha.
Yes, I've installed LM 7.1 on my alpha, and I'm compiling cooker on the
machine at the moment. Most packages are compiling.

 I'm currently looking into replacing OSF/1 on an Aspen Durango 500 with Mandrake.
To be totally honest with you, I'd be carefull with switching over. If
you have a spare disk, install it on there, but don't replace OSF/1 at
the moment (or use RedHat -- they've released the alpha distro a few
times, 6.2 is the latest). The alpha mandrake is NOT supported by
Mandrake, and active development is carried out by a few people. Getting
issues solved might take some time...

But... I'm working on getting my alpha binaries distributed (someway)
and to create an alpha user community. The idea is to use Official
Mandrake src.rpm's, compile  install them on alpha boxen. Fix the
packages (if needed) without breaking other platform support (ix86, ppc
and sparc) and submitting the changes back to Mandrake. I personally
feel that the cooker development method works, and could be suitable for
this. The only bottleneck will be getting the fixes merged with cooker,
since the people at mandrake are extremely busy...
 
 I'd like to get some feedback before I go ahead with the install.
I'll try my best to help you, but I can't promise anything.

Stefan

PS: I'm not associated with Mandrake in any way...