[ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] mdorman@debian.org: > I use it every day. Or at least every day that ftp.debian.org doesn't > have a 0-length Packages file for alpha. :-) It works just fine. OK. I had problems with it on the Alpha many moons ago, and have kept away since. > I think the concensus is that we're using egcs. Versions of gcc are > simply too broken for c++ axp/linux, and especially when optimizing c. OK. I'll upgrade to egcs (I'll hunt down the snapshot reference from the archive), and re-compile the text section using it. I have version 2.0.7pre1-1 of libc6.1. > I daresay you outrun my UDB by a bit. Only when our Alpha works. It's been 7 months since it arrived. :-( (Our Debian/i386 machines, however, have only required on the order of one or two work days admin time, total, so far, since beginning of 1997.) > Installing MILO is easy---make an MS-DOS partition, mount it, copy it. I got it to work from a floppy just now. Whee. Am having trouble creating an MS-DOS partition on the hard disk. mkdosfs says # mkdosfs -v /dev/sda2 mkdosfs 0.3b (Yggdrasil), 5th May 1995 for MS-DOS FS /dev/sda2: Device not configured # The partition is marked as type 4 (DOS 16-bit <32M). (man mformat claims mformat only works for floppies, so I haven't tried it yet.)
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