Alpha problems
Hi,
I just got my Alpha and of course have replaced its RedHat with
Debian.
However, I've got lots of problems:
* Most of xemacs20 is missing (xemacs20-bin, etc)
* xserver-vga16 is missing
* xbase is from the "new" (-6) X, but the rest of X isn't,
and things like xterm packages aren't there either, meaning
there's X but no xterm. Why? This is a serious problem.
* I can't compile a kernel. At first, make menuconfig
complains of problems in line 30 of arch/alpha/Makefile.
Later, I am unable to select the NCR53c8xx driver for
compilation (I require this driver). This applies to both
2.0.34 and 2.0.35.
* kernel-source-2.0.35 just unpacks a tar.gz file in /usr/src.
* I had an odd problem wherein all of a sudden fsck started
running while dselect was installing some things. I may have
hit something odd on the keyboard (Ctrl-something perhaps) but
I did NOT run fsck. Even stranger, it tried to change runlevels
apparently, because after I killed fsck, it prompted me
for the root password (as sulogin does) on one vt, but dselect
continued in another.
* The boot disks on master are hosed. Ie, no resc1440.bin for my
system.
Ideas?
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