Re: [announce] SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition available.

On Tue, 13 May 2003 16:09:51 +0200
Stefan Reinauer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear Alpha community,
> 
> it's been quite some spare time nights that the old SuSE Alpha Team
> spent to present you a new version of SuSE Linux for Alpha machines.
> 
> To safe more greasy words: It's available for download from 
>       ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/ 
> 
> There are quite a couple of reasons to update now, among them are:
> 
>  * kernel 2.4.19
>  * gcc 3.2.2, glibc 2.2.5, binutils 2.12.90.0.15
>  * apache2, bind8/9, ..
>  * kde 3.0.4
>  * ...
>  
> SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition has been tested on several EV56/EV6/EV67
> machines, but it might also work on newer/older Alpha systems. 
> 
> To install SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition on SRM systems, you need to
> download the installation iso, and burn it to a CD. Find the ISO at  
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/boot/boot.iso
> Then you can start installation with "boot dkb0 -fl 0". Please make 
> sure to insert your cdrom device instead of dkb0. For interactive 
> startup you can use the "-fl i" instead of "-fl 0"
> Installation on Milo systems is a little bit more work. Find a short
> description and the milo images at
> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/supplementary/8.1/milo/
> 
> Please note: SuSE Linux 8.1 Alpha Edition comes with absolutely no
> warranty and support whatsoever. We can not provide iso images of the
> complete distribution at the moment, but ftp installation works fine
> here and should be viable once the distribution arrived on all
> mirrors.
> 
> Feel free to send bug reports, or hints to the SuSE AXP mailing list 
> [email protected]. 
> 
> Best regards,
>   Stefan Reinauer
>   
Just a question. I started a download, but today at 01.57 in the morning
it was finished with many unlink messages. I checked the /pub/suse/axp
directory and what a surprise no supplementary directory. May I asked
what happened?

VV