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In article <3t861o$9l1@portal.gmu.edu> wkhouri@merlyn.labs.gmu.edu (Walid Khouri) writes:

   I recently purchased the InfoMagic Developer's Resource 4-CD set.
   I encountered all sorts of crc and tar errors while installing the
   Slackware 2.2 (kernel 1.2.1) distribution on the first disk.

Well, I have another CD distribution and it also results in various
I/O errors when I try to read some of the directories on the
CDROM. Fortunately, in my case, the errors were in unimportant areas
(directory slaktest, if I remember correctly---I managed to do a
complete install w/o problems. 

It seems that the CDROM vendors have to work so fast that quality control
suffers at times. 

However, to convince yourself that your problem does not result from
some faulty hardware, try copying the suspect file from the cdrom to
your hard disk several times, and compare the copies (perhaps even get
one copy on another machine).

   Also, I am curious to know what is going on in this area (if
   anything) in terms of Linux on DEC Alphas. ?????

I am very interested in this topic, and I am following the Linux-Alpha
mailing list. They made some very good progress: not only the kernel
works but there is even a preliminary distribution of user-level
binaries (BLADE). Linus is working on the networking code, and just
got a loopback ping to work few days ago; it is expected that the rest
is downhill.

       Alpha:      BOGOMIPS RATING IS 190!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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