Re: Another installation instructions question

The following random bytes came from Marnix Arnold's keyboard :

>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.
>  
>
Well I finally tried with vanilla-sources first, I'll see how it goes. 
The version I got was 2.4.28, which is what I was using on Debian 
before, so I guess it should work...

>Also make sure you use the right MILO. ... Since you've
>already used Debian, you may have it already. See the forum thread.
>  
>
Yup, I already had a MILO that worked. I'm just waiting to have mkdosfs 
on the system to copy it over to my small FAT16 partition.

>But if you get any results with the 2.6 kernels, please post a message on
>this list; I may try again.
>  
>
I'll try a 2.6 kernel later. On Debian, it booted, but then had problems 
running some software (X, apache2, etc.) and I didn't have time to 
troubleshoot (because the alpha was my house's gateway/router at the 
time). Now, I'll have more time to check into it.

Which brings me to another question, how do I get a 2.6 kernel? Is there 
anything I need to specify to emerge to get it?

Thanks again,

J-S

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