Bug#516015: lenny kernel does not boot Alpha architecture

2009-02-18 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
1-way, 64b line L3 cache: n/a -- Jiann-Ming Su "Black Reagan will be blamed for the failing economic and monetary policies instituted by white men over past 100 years." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Debian Linux for Alpha v3.0 rel 4

2005-09-15 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
rk > either. > IIRC, modern Alpha distros only support SRM. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman

unzip: unknown compression method

2005-01-28 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I tried upgrading to 2.6.10 from 2.6.8, but I get "unzip: unknown compression method" at my SRM console. I compiled the 2.6.10 from source/patches. I'm back running 2.6.8 again. Any reason why 2.6.10 would fail like that? Thanks for any insight. Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois,

32-bit gcc help

2004-07-06 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
pile with 32-bit integers? I tried passing "-msmall-data" as part of the CFLAGS variable. Some architectures allow for a "-m32", but Alpha isn't one of them. Thanks for any tips. Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin

volunteer build box?

2004-06-16 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
How do I go about volunteering my Alpha as a build box for debian packages? Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
> with RedHat, I will probably skip that nightmare and just buy the Intel > box. > If you're primary purpose is LTSP, take a look at http://www.k12ltsp.org/. KNOPPIX also has a terminal server. -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-06 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Speakman, John H./Epidemiology-Biostatistics wrote: > I do think if you have to have Linux it should be Debian. > For someone who has had so much trouble with both Intel and Alpha, why Debian? -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-05 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
I'm sure RH7.2 should work well on your system. -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-04 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
a, leave the first sector blank for aboot. That is, start your first partition with sector 2. If you don't use BSD disk labels, aboot will not install. IIRC, RedHat 7.2's installer took care of a lot of this. -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-02 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
compatible with the eepro100 driver? -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin

RE: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-06-01 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
ives within the > installer, or outside the installer program, I would prefer trying that > first. > I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in partitioning with fdisk: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that&#x

Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning

2004-05-31 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
ackage: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 750 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 500 -- Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as

SRM help?

2004-05-28 Thread Jiann-Ming Su
s and reminders. Jiann-Ming Su "Yeah, Lois, that'll be about as much fun as a lecture on ontological empiricism." --Peter Griffin