Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Brian Macy wrote: > > Fortunately it is now installed and behaving happily... hopefully this > > torture will pay for itself in the long run with upgrades being trivial. > > > > I'm frightened to think what installing Debian on an Alpha is going to > > be like. Makes the Debian i386 installs feel like a nice back massage :) > > In fact the Alpha install feels like a nice back massage compared to the i386 > install. At least it did for slink on my DEC UDB :-)
Sure, if you know the system well enough to "just know" how to start the install. Word of caution to Brian: the install docs for Alpha are pretty bad (at least Slink was and Potato was no better as of a couple of weeks ago). Except for the boot disks themselves, the Alpha docs are just the i386 docs with nothing Alpha-specific about booting. I'm working on patches, will probably submit this Friday... (Sorry about the offtopic post.) Zeen, -Adam P.
