[CLUE-Tech] The Great Alpha-Luv-Fest

[Haley, Mike]

Yep, I will be bringing a carload of Alphas including some for door prizes.
3.5Gig?  These boxes don't have that much drive space but I suppose most
people will be getting bigger hard drives.
Randy Arabie [rrarabie at hotmail.com] is going to be burning some CD's too.
Jeremy Huber [jhuber at fallenknight.org] has successfully installed Linux onto
his Alpha, check out his experience on his web site.

Mike Haley

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Keith Hellman [SMTP:kehellman at yahoo.com]
	Sent:	Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:05 AM
	To:	cluetech
	Subject:	[CLUE-Tech] The Great Alpha-Luv-Fest

	Hello All:

	I have downloaded and split the SuSE 7.1 AXP (Alpha) distribution
across CDs.  If your planning on
	taking advantage of the Alpha Fest at the next meeting (geez I hope
this is still on?); AND you
	would like to give SuSE a try, let me know and I will bring as many
copies as are requested, or as
	many I can burn before Tuesday.

	I have appended my own README for the CDs below
	===========================================================
	README_CLUE
	kehellman at yahoo.com - December 2, 2001

	This is a set of 6 CDs that constitute a mirror (sans spm) of the
	SuSE AXP (Alpha) FTP distrobution.  I mirrored the site locally
	with 
	>WGET='-nH --cut-dirs=6 -T 45 --passive-ftp --mirror --timestamping
-X
	/pub/linux/distributions/suse/suse/axp/7.1/suse/zq1'
	>wget ${WGET}
ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/suse/suse/axp/7.1/
	around the last weekend of November.  The download has been
	grouped into 6 CD images (about 3.5Gb).

	I'll make copies for anyone taking advantage of the
'Alpha-Early-Christmas-Party'
	at the next CLUE meeting.  I would only ask that you let me know if
you 
	want a set - so I don't blow too many CDRs.

	I understand there is also going to be a door prize Alpha so unless
there
	are objections, I'll burn a set for that lucky dog too.

	CAVEATS
	The SuSE ftp distribution has a fair amount of windows cruft
	(suse/axp/7.1/windows, about 314Mb) which WOULD have landed on CD1 
	had there been room - there wasn't so its on CD6.  Apparently its
for 
	'enterprise' activities or setting up SuSE linux on a machine
running 
	Windows NT/AXP.  I figured we have a majority 'boot-disk'
demographic so
	I pushed this stuff off to the end...

	There is 1.5Gb of source RPMs available via FTP that are not on the
CDs
	(all in the 'suse/zq1' directory).

	I could not find AXP boot CD images on the SuSE ftp site, nor
mention that
	they did exist.  The SuSE readme says to
	a) mirror their site
	b) provide your mirror to the target Alpha via ftp
	c) create a boot disk for alpha
	d) choose FTP install and point the installer to your mirror
	So you will need a little diskspace (~3.5Gb) and some type of
network
	to use these CDs.  I have attempted to keep the 'important stuff' on
	the first CD.  I judged 'important' by looking at my 6 CD SuSE
Professional
	Distro (Intel) and determining which package sets were on which CDs,
and letting
	that guide my CD groupings.  It did not come out to be a perfect 1-1
mapping
	but it is close.  I suspect that if you don't mind a few
false-starts, you
	could get away with less FTP space than 3.5 gigs.  YMMV.

	This file (README_CLUE) is on the first CD, as well as INDEX_CLUE.gz
which is 
	an index file for all 6 CDs.  These are the only files that did not
come off 
	the FTP site.
	\EOF 



	=====
	Keith E. Hellman
	kehellman at yahoo.com

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