Alpha Core ISO Images

Richard Irving rirving at antient.org
Tue Sep 28 21:57:01 UTC 2004


Richard Irving wrote:
  FYI: ENTIRE CARMEN TREE MIRROR, ONLINE AS WELL...

   Slight change to venue.
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    The JUNO ISO's

    ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/ISO
     or
    ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/ftptree/ISO

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    The RAW Carmen Tree, rsynced overnight.

    ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/carmen

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     The FTP based monolithic JUNO tree.

    ftp://fedora-axp.antient.org/pub/ftptree

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    As the project maintainer dreamed, I added a monolithic
    tree for FTP installs. I apologize to anyone who was downloading
    that I interupted...I forgot to unmount  a mounted .iso,
    and issued a mv command to make space for all this.

     To make a long story short, SRM appears to be working fine.

     :(  :O   :)


    All this is a "bat out of heck" to United States downloaders...

    (And not too shabby for over-sea targets.)




> Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:51:53AM +1000, Mike Barnes wrote:
>>
>>> Compares very well with the development system, then. I've got a
>>> Radeon 7000 in mine. Runs quite nicely. Tuxracer looks good. :)
>>
>>
>> You'd be amazed at how much better a 7500 is; and a 9100 is even better!
>> Biggest problem is finding the PCI versions... :-\
> 
> 
>   Tell me about it, I am looking for a USB card that fits
> in a PCI type bus in the 1200's. Hints appreciated.
> 
>>> I've had a terrible time with using IDE disks on the Miata, but this
>>> is nothing new. SCSI works perfectly. We've also have an LX164 board
>>> up and running.
>>
>>
>> I've none with IDE disks installed at the moment, but IDE CDROM does
>> just fine...
>>
>>> We really need to confirm if the SMP kernel actually works. If
>>> anyone's got an SMP Alpha system, I'd appreciate a report.
>>
>>
>> SMP does NOT work, at least on my DS20 (UP kernel is fine).
>> Below is a partial log of the boot messages, picking up just before
>> the first obvious error message. Seems to be module-related...
> 
> 
> 
>   Choke and Puke.
> 
>    Actually, does look like initrd is hosed.
> 
>   * sigh *
> 
>   If the (&%^%&%(^(^(^ Kernel builds, It will be enough I can
> get a start....
> 
> 
> 
>>>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>>>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>>>> Red Hat nash vermodule scsi_mod: Relocation overflow vs section 22
>>>> sion 3.5.22 starsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_device_get
>>>> ting
>>>> Mounted /psd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_wait_req
>>>> roc filesystem
>>>> sd_mod: Unknown symbol scsicam_bios_param
>>>> Mounting sysfs
>>>> sd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_block_when_processing_errors
>>>> Loading scsi_modsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_register_driver
>>>> .ko module
>>>> insmsd_mod: Unknown symbol scsi_ioctl
>>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll pop the current SRPM up sometime in the next few hours. The one
>>> sitting in the Carmen tree at
>>> ftp://ftp.maths.monash.edu.au/pub/carmen/ should be almost identical,
>>> though. Check the configs bundled in that. Tweaks to the kernel config
>>> would be great to get back. It's a pretty basic setup modelled mostly
>>> on the current x86 defaults right now.
>>
>>
>>
>> OK, the kernel will make LEGACY_START_ADDRESS known in its messages if
>> it is configured, and this one does, so the current install kernel
>> will NOT work on DS15/DS25/ES45/MARVEL.
>>
>> But it SHOULD work on MILO machines... :-) :-)
>>
>>  --Jay++
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Jay A Estabrook                            HPTC - LINUX support
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