Hi John!
On 7/11/19 2:48 PM, John Blake wrote:
I have a DS10L 617mhz and I can't figure out which version is the best to attempt to install on it. I'd rather avoid things like this issue with systemd where they obviously haven't tried to actually test it on an alpha processor, but I have no problem with recompiling things as necessary (although I would like to avoid the Gentoo path of recompiling everything).
systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes.
I assume you are talking about the non-functionality of a separate /usr partition,
but this is something that isn't guaranteed to work well on Linux, no matter whether
one uses systemd or any other type of init daemon.
The other question I have is whether or not someone has fixed the issue with fdisk on the system, because I remember the last time I tried to install linux on the system in question, it wouldn't format the drive with a BSD partition as was necessary and after some discussion on some mailing list or another it was discovered that the required functionality had been phased out of fdisk a few years before, and nobody had noticed on either side that it made it impossible to follow the given directions on the FAQ/wiki. It was still being automatically included with the distro and at the time I had to burn an ancient stable version just to put the partition table right in order to install.
debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of
the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently
shipped without proprietary firmware.
Adrian
[1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-07/