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From: "Jean-Sébastien Guay" <jean_seb@videotron.ca>
To: 'Jay Maynard' <jmaynard@conmicro.cx>
Cc: gentoo-alpha@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-alpha] Gentoo Alpha questions
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2004 15:16:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005501c403b7$ee25a700$0200a8c0@whitestar02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040306153853.GA12282@thebrain.conmicro.cx>

Hello Jay,

> Which LiveCD?

The Gentoo-alpha LiveCD, as found at <any gentoo
mirror>/experimental/alpha/livecd/

> In general, you will not be able to boot from a Gentoo LiveCD directly
with
> ARC/AlphaBIOS. You'll have to use MILO from a floppy. I don't believe
it's
> possible to make a CD bootable for both SRM and ARC.

Ok, that's what I tought from my experience with Debian. So what is the
preferred installation method then? Start from a separate partition of
my existing Debian installation?

> I didn't have any problems compiling stuff when I brought up my
Gentoo/Alpha
> box a month or so ago. 

That's good news.

> I did have to do 
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package>
> several times, but I won't have to do that again, because Aron was
good
> enoguh to mark everything I installed and am running as stable in
response
> to my bug reports. :-)

Err, what does that mean? Sorry for being a neophyte, but
"ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~alpha' emerge <package>" doesn't mean anything to
me... :-)

J-S

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Jean-Sébastien Guay        jean_seb@videotron.ca
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20040306153853.GA12282@thebrain.conmicro.cx>
2004-03-06 20:16 ` Jean-Sébastien Guay [this message]
2004-03-06 21:56   ` [gentoo-alpha] Gentoo Alpha questions Jay Maynard
2004-03-08 15:23 Donsbach, Jeff
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-06 19:54 Donsbach, Jeff
2004-03-06 21:46 ` Jay Maynard
2004-03-07  6:38 ` Marc Giger
2004-03-05 16:48 Donsbach, Jeff
2004-03-06 15:14 ` Jean-Sébastien Guay
2004-03-06 17:26   ` Marc Giger
2004-03-06 20:18     ` Jean-Sébastien Guay
2004-03-05 16:41 Donsbach, Jeff
2004-03-05 15:35 Donsbach, Jeff
2004-03-05 16:06 ` Marc Giger
2004-03-05 16:43 ` Marc Giger
2004-03-05 15:09 Jean-Sébastien Guay
2004-03-05 15:13 ` Jean-Sébastien Guay
2004-03-05 15:08 Jean-Sébastien Guay

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