Re: on Debian/Alpha

[Ron Farrer <rbf farrer net>]

Igor Schein (igor@txc.com) wrote:

> A good starting point is www.debianplanet.org.  There seem to be 2 releases.
> Potato is a stable release, and there's an alpha iso image of it on
> all mirrors.  It's *old* - Apr 2001, but there appears to be a way to
> upgrade it to 2.4 kernel.  Woody is the current release at works, but
> I couldn't find alpha iso for it.

Correct, potato is the current 'stable' release. woody is 'testing' and
will eventually become 'stable'. You basically have three choices to get
to a 2.4.x kernel:

1) Install potato and dist-upgrade to woody; or
2) Install potato and build the required packages for 2.4.x from source 
   for potato (take the source packages from testing).
3) Build your own CD ISO image set from woody using the Pseudo-Image
   Kit. See http://cdimage.debian.org/

HTH,
Ron
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