I've recently acquired XP1000 workstation (Alpha powered).Cool. 21264 CPU, right?
Tried to install cooker on it, but the installer kept falling over on various stages (did not install any packages in the first place for example), and finally segfault-ed (tried both ftp and nfs installs).alpha cooker install program needs some work (understatement).
So I've installed 7.1b without major problems.This _should_ be possible. Grab a copy of the mirror, put it local on the box, remove all possible 7.1b packages from the machine, upgrade the rest to cooker. Should work, but it may be hairy at times... :-/
Now, two questions:
1) is there a way to upgrade 7.1b -> cooker on a running system?
2) if not, is there some "minimalistic" cooker installer available, that would simply set up a basic system with urpmi?not that I know of...
The second thing is quite crucial for non-intel ports. We all know, that cooker is a total swine to install from scratch, especially if the last available stable is 7.1 with RPM3.yup... will require installing glibc, rpm and other vital rpm's in one go... as I've said before, can (and probably will) be hairy.
If I'm able to upgrade to cooker on this machine, I can give access to Alpha port developers the same way, I've supplied 3 (UltraSparc 10) machines to SPARC port developers (see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MdkPortsCool...
for details).
With all this cool hardware available, I'm wondering if slbd can be adapted to work in a distributed manner --> let all these machines spread over the Internet do rebuilding, in a semi-clustered manner. Would be cool.
Stefan
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