Re: Debian-Alpha port ideas...please read (long)
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Marc A. Volovic wrote:
> I am tempted to agree with you, but I am not a maintainer nor a developer.
> I will, time permitting, be submitting a package into hamm (both i386 and
> ALPHA) but nothing major (a UPS controller for a very specific model of
> UPS), but as far as the whole distribution, I am not empowered to decide
> anything, nor do I feel myself knowledgebale enough.
Hehehe...well, a lack of knowledge or "rank" never stopped me from saying
what I think :P All kidding aside, though, I think everyone who has an
opinion regarding this should voice it. I know most users probably don't
care much about these things unless it directly affects them, but I know
that they often have great ideas as well. So by all means, speak if you
have an idea :)
> I think we're pretty close to that on UDB's. True, UDB's are NOT EXACTLY
> top of the line :-).
They're definitely common. I've noticed more and more 433+ models hitting
the market and being bought recently on the AXP list, though, so we may
want to enlist some help in that direction as soon as we iron-clad most of
our generic install procedure.
> I'd settle on SOME ALPHA hardware. My nano-HOWTO may be a base and, as I
> said in a private message to Chris, things can be done - i.e. I am
> volunteering to be the victi.... recipient of procedural descriptions of
> installation for various hardware platforms and amalgamation of same into
> the howto.
Hehehe...well, for all others, both Marc and I have agreed to start a real
howto document for installation. I will be hosting the document on my web
site as soon as we get it somewhat sensible. So far, we've agreed that
the HOWTO should be broken down as follows:
A. Boot procedures
Details MILO setup and loading on the individual hardware.
This is where we put all of the hardware-specific
instructions relating to booting the systems prior to
distribution installation.
B. Distribution installation (install disk stuff)
These can be VERY generic since this level is all
base-level installation stuff.
C. Post-install stuff (dselect, etc)
We're also thinking of adding another section or appendix which talks
about autobooting and other things that aren't required but are good to
know about. This will most likely have to be broken down into various
subsections for each machine type, fyi.
> Oh, a beautul dream.
Hehehehe...ain't that the truth :P
> So, please, people. If you've installed Debian on an Alpha (and NOT a
> UDB), bounce a write-up in my direction and I will be more than happy to
> push 'em into the sodding nano-HOWTO. Chris will, I hope, plug 'em into
> his Web site.
As we discussed, once you get them out of ascii and into a real format
(smirk), I'll convert what you have and add to it as I can. I freed up
the spare Jaz disk today and should be able to run a fresh installation
test within two weeks.
Chris
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