RH7.2 for Alpha??

[Kevin Brown]

http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/linux/support_options.html

No RH7.2 for Alpha.  At least not according to this.

> Okay I think I'm going to make it a Debian box. (just because I could
> find the bloody iso). It looks like Compaq has a version of RedHat 7.2
> for Alpha but I couldn't find it on their website. Its going to take me
> about 3 hours to download the first disk. I should be thankful though a
> lot of the mirrors just skip the alpha disks.

> > To the best of my knowledge, no.  RH7.1 appears to be the last version
> > precompiled for Alpha.  Guess you could install 7.1 then grab the 7.2 src.rpm
> > and build them all
> >
> > rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm
> >
> > and wait 3 weeks for each one to finish.
> >
> > Or go with Debian.  Looks like (from www.linuxiso.org) that it is the only
> > Distro to still have support for Alpha, sigh.
> >
> > Carl Parrish wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay I just got a AlphaPC 164SX. Its got RH 6.0 on it and I want to
> > > upgrade to 7.2 but I don't see a Alpha boot img on my disks. (I'm pretty
> > > sure 7.0 used to have a seperate img). I'm on the Redhat site now and
> > > don't see anything. Does anyone know if 7.2 has been ported to Alpha
> > > yet?