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

[Grant Johnson]

Second Tuesday at Hall Kinon's meeting room.  CHeck 
http://clue.denver.co.us for more details.

Mike Staver wrote:

>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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