Re: Another installation instructions question

Hi J-S,

Good to see another fellow XLT owner!

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> I'm tempted to go with alpha-sources, since I guess compaq-sources being
> used by RedHat might be outdated, and vanilla-sources might not be
> optimized for alpha specifically. Am I right about that?

Yes, go with alpha-sources. You'll get a 2.4.21 kernel that works, with a
small manual modification, on XLT (see this thread on the Alternative
Archs forum: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=161155 ). The
modification is to fix a bug that was solved in 2.4.22, but alpha-sources
only goes up to 2.4.21 so you have to do it by hand.

Also make sure you use the right MILO. The one for XLT on the Gentoo
LiveCD does not work. There is an experimental version floating around,
made by Jay Estabrook, with which I have had good results. Since you've
already used Debian, you may have it already. See the forum thread.

> Also, should I stick to a 2.4 series kernel on my machine, or will a 2.6
> series build all right? On my old debian system I had all kinds of
> trouble with the 2.6 kernels, but that may just be because I couldn't
> customize it correctly (I was using a pre-built debian kernel).

I've tried to build vanilla-sources, gentoo-sources, development-sources
and gentoo-dev-sources (2.4 and 2.6). Building wasn't a problem, but Milo
won't boot any kernel newer than 2.4.21 on my XLT-300. It just hangs after
jumping to the kernel. Eventually, I got tired of it and stopped trying.
But if you get any results with the 2.6 kernels, please post a message on
this list; I may try again.

Marnix.


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