Re: Creating new install disks for alpha
On Sun 05 Apr 1998, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> Guenter Geiger <geiger@iem.mhsg.ac.at> writes:
>
> > > I strongly feel that if a decent installation disk set, and all of the
> > > base packages and enough of devel to support compilation of additional
> > > packages is stable and working... then we ought to release as 'stable' when
> > > 2.0 releases.
> > >
> > > We can always add things through whatever "hamm-updates"
> > > mechanism is used, and if we release a stable feature subset at
> > > 2.0, it'll be that much easier to get critical mass for a more
> > > complete release at 2.1...
Yes, I feel this is pretty important. When people now ask what
distributions are available for the Alpha, all I can say is "Red Hat"
(although I gather there's a new one (german?)).
It doesn't matter whether it's fully complete or not. It's probably more
complete than Red Hat is :-)
> > Ok, so anybody with base disks experience around ?
>
> In order to use the default procedures for making base disks we need
> kernel-image packages for all the architecture versions. I didn't
> find out how the currently-used install disks were built.
I'd be more than willing to help with the install/base disks. I have a
scratch partition in my XLT, and my UDB is crying out for debian as well
(it currently has RH 4.1).
Who _did_ make the current set? Is he/they no longer with us?
Paul Slootman
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