Re: RedHat Alpha Rawhide Anyone?

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber rochester rr com>]

marbud@nocrew.org wrote:
> 
> Have anyone tried RedHats Alpha Rawhide dist? Is it any good?
> (un)stable? Worth the pain?
> 
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> Martin Budsjö, Dimension Sweden, Mölndalsvägen 85,412 85  GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN
> Phone: +46 31 7502068, Mobile: +46 709 310168, Email:marbud@dimension.se

I am running the Rawhide I downloaded 11/20/99 (the date is important
because what is there now is not what I have). It works just fine once
you get it loaded, but that is the trick. At that time, aboot and milo
were incapable of accessing the 'sparce superblock', 4k cluster version
of ext2 filesystem therefore you had to either boot the kernel from
floppy or an msdos  partition. Annoying but doable. Hopefully this will
be fixed soon.

Chris Kloiber