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Brian Hoffman: Upgrading MkLinux on Gene
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raj Shah)
Tue Oct 8 23:39:23 1996
To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 23:38:45 EDT
From: Raj Shah <rshah@MIT.EDU>
The follwing comes from a friend of mine who's lurking about on
sipb-office. Failry clueful about Mac-Linux stuff (while still
maintiaining the pretense of being a course 2).
Fyi
Raj
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From what I understand (I've installed DR2 on my system
but I haven't upgraded the Kernel, and I wasn't aware that there
was any Kernel other than the one that comes with DR2 available...)
when they came out with DR2 they recompiled the entire damn thing
with a different version of gcc. Hence, there's binary incompatibility
with DR1 - (I believe this is why the RPM's need to be upgraded...
kind of sucks too, since there were a lot of things that had been
ported to DR1 and distributed through mklinux.apple.com as binaries,
but those are probably all invalid now...<sigh>)
To tell you the truth, if DR1 is installed and you've
installed the 3 upgrade patches that were available, the system
that you've got is pretty much the same as DR2 (as least to the
naked eye...). But OSF wants everyone to install DR2, so I did
like they said :)
LKM support though - score :) Now all we need is floppy
support :)
Anyway, just FYI :) (I believe that most of the above
is correct but then again I am often wrong :) )
Later
Brian
>To: sipb-office@MIT.EDU
>Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Upgrading MkLinux on Gene
>Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 18:12:50 EDT
>From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
>
>Someone at OSF offered to come over and upgrade MkLinux on Gene
>to DR2 + Linux 2.0.21. Since I know next to nothing about MkLinux
>and even less about Gene, I figured I'd ask others before either
>accepting or turning down this offer.
>
>I beieve that we allocated $25 for a DR2 CD. My understanding is
>that DR2 still uses 1.2.13, and that there are a number of RPMs
>that need to be upgraded still to get to Linux 2.0.x from that
>baseline.
>
>The reason OSF is willing to do this is that 2.0.21 includes LKM
>support, and they want me to port Linux-AFS.
>
>Comments?
>
>-derek
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