RH7.2 for Alpha??

[Carl Parrish]

This is what I was going off of Kevin. 

http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2002/press_alphaFAQ.html

Carl P.

On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 23:20, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 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?
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