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

[Mike Staver]

Ok, just so I don't get the wrong day - the meetings are where and when
again? I'd like to start attending regularly.

"Haley, Mike" wrote:
> 
> 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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