Hi John! On 7/11/19 2:48 PM, John Blake wrote: > I have a DS10L 617mhz and I can't figure out which version is the best to > attempt to install on it. I'd rather avoid things like this issue with > systemd where they obviously haven't tried to actually test it on an alpha > processor, but I have no problem with recompiling things as necessary > (although I would like to avoid the Gentoo path of recompiling everything).
systemd works the same way on my Alpha XP-1000 as it works on my Intel boxes. I assume you are talking about the non-functionality of a separate /usr partition, but this is something that isn't guaranteed to work well on Linux, no matter whether one uses systemd or any other type of init daemon. > The other question I have is whether or not someone has fixed the issue with > fdisk on the system, because I remember the last time I tried to install > linux on the system in question, it wouldn't format the drive with a BSD > partition as was necessary and after some discussion on some mailing list or > another it was discovered that the required functionality had been phased out > of fdisk a few years before, and nobody had noticed on either side that it > made it impossible to follow the given directions on the FAQ/wiki. It was > still being automatically included with the distro and at the time I had to > burn an ancient stable version just to put the partition table right in order > to install. debian-installer doesn't use fdisk (anymore), it uses partman. Did you try any of the recent installation images, see [1]. Please note these images are currently shipped without proprietary firmware. Adrian > [1] https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-07/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
