🚀 go-pugleaf

Jean-Claude Magras wrote:

> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>
> > Tim Tuck (Tim.Tuck@penrith.net) wrote:
> >
> > : OH and there seems to be some serious documentation errors such as the
> > : the boot linux gets call linuz instead of linux.gz - or is this
> > : symptomatic of other problems ?
> >
> > A boot file name, if it is compressed or not, if it has suffix .gz or
> > not, etc.  is plain immaterial.  You may call it "mickeymouse" is such
> > fancy will strike you (but then watch for Disney lawyers knocking to
> > your door :-).  Some years ago first version of a loader on Alpha indeed
> > looked if '.gz' is present or not but this is an ancient prehistory.
> >
> > BTW - a compressed form of a kernel loads faster (time differences
> > are really not that important :-)  as your memory and processor are
> > substantially faster than your disk.  Why Red Hat in recent
> > distributions (not only Alpha) stuck in /boot both compressed and
> > uncompressed versions of boot images is not something for which
> > I can find any rational explanation.
> >
> >   Michal
> >
> > p.s. If you load your boot images from a device with a file system
> > different than ext2 (like FAT or "pure" ISO9660, for example) you better
> > keep file names for that withing constraints that fs or you will have
> > problems to find them in a boot time.  This actually applies universally
> > but it is hard to create on ext2, for example, a file with a name which
> > ext2 does not recognize.
>
> I have installed RH 6.2 on a 200 4/233 from the ISO image i downloaded
> from a redhat mirror. I believe you have to dd the generic.img kernel
> unto a floppy. I was working from milo too. Has any body been able
> to get the PCMCIA support to work (yess I have the sourceforge.com
> code)... but configuring has been a real pain: i'nsmod i82365.o' causes
> a hang. 'insmod ds.o'  comes back saying 'file or resource busy' .
>
> Sincerely,
>
> J.C. Magras

Same configuration for me 200 4/233.  Which version of MILO are you using
I have tried 2.0.35 but this cannot find some of the new PCI based graphic
cards
that I am testing.   Recently got 2.2.15 and .16 from alphalinux.org but
these
freeze after the 'jumping to bootstrap code' line.  Kernel is 2.2.13-0.9

Martin Booker