Re: Gentoo Alpha questions

Marc Giger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jean-Sébastien,

On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:14:27 -0500
Jean-Sébastien Guay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Thanks for the answers. There are two other things I wanted to know...
> 
> 1. Did anyone with a milo-only machine (like my Alpha XL-366) have
> trouble booting from the LiveCD? I was never able to boot from the
> Debian installation CD, and had to start the installation from
> diskettes...

Jeff? 

> 
> 2. Are there often problems compiling stuff like what Jeff talked
> about in his message? I would hate my server to be down for a day/week
> because some new version of an essential daemon (like exim, sshd,
> apache) refused to compile.

I think you got a wrong impression. It's rather an exception that a
package can not be compiled. ALL ebuilds which are marked stable are
stable especially on alpha (mistakes happens).

greets

Marc

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