Re: Alpha LiveCD available for testing

Nice work, Jay!

Did you include linload.exe and any milo images (not having looked yet 
myself)? If not, could be handy to stick them there on the next go-round.

Jeff D


On Friday 27 February 2004 08:40 am, Jay Maynard wrote:
> I've finally succeeded in building a LiveCD for the Alpha platform with
> catalyst. The result, a 58 MB file, can be downloaded from
> http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/gentoo-alpha-1.4-test2-20040225.iso .
> Anyone who's interested in Gentoo on the Alpha is invited to download and
> test it.
>
> I've done some testing, but haven't tried installing a system with it yet.
> It does boot, talk to the network, and see SCSI-attached disks without
> extra parameters if they're attached to the controllers normally sold wiht
> Alpha systems.
>
> The CD was built with a zisofs filesystem. It has 3 kernels installed, one
> for normal use, one intended for use with MILO for those systems that can't
> run aboot for some reason, and one built specifically for the Jensen
> platform.
>
> I've created bug 43092 to add the specfiles and scripts to catalyst.


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