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Hello Simon, On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Simon Kenyon wrote: > while i await the arrival of my new alpha motherboard can somebody give me > some pointers for places to start? > i don't want to use redhat as i've been a slackware persone since >whenever and I am also a died in the wool Slackware fan . But I've had reasonable success with installing redhat 5.0 on my alpha- station200 . I followed (somewhat) the Redhat Installation Guide & the Alpha Addenda , My only beef with redhat is its /etc/rc.d/init.d/'all those scripts that require other scripts' startup directory . > i've never had any joy with redhat > are there any alternative distributions which i can use? - or do i have > to bootstrap the hard way I've heard tell of another (? Debian | SuSe ?) that is -very- slackware like, although it uses the RPM facility to install everything . > -- > simon Hth, JimL +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere - Network Engineer - babydr@nwrain.net | | System Techniques - 25416 - 22nd S. - Kent, WA 98032 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux -but- only on AXP | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |-> Linux-Vax Port, Now in Progress !YAY! there's Progress To Report <-| |-> Please See http://ucnet.canberra.edu.au/~mikal/vaxlinux/home.html <-| |-> Maintainer: Michael Still mikal@blitzen.canberra.edu.au <-| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu | ||||||||||||
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