[1466] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Upgrading MkLinux on Gene
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Wed Oct 9 18:19:41 1996
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 18:17:38 -0400
To: warlord@MIT.EDU, rshah@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-office@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9610082212.AA24600@portnoy.MIT.EDU> (message from Derek Atkins
on Tue, 08 Oct 1996 18:12:50 EDT)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Derek wrote:
Someone at OSF offered to come over and upgrade MkLinux on Gene
to DR2 + Linux 2.0.21.
I assume that installing DR2 is not a complicated process. I'm sure
that any Sipb member is competent enough to install it. We shouldn't
need the aid of one of the system developers. (Installing DR1 was
actually easier than installing any i386 Linux distribution I've ever
installed, since there were no options. The process was "double click
on this icon and come back tomorrow.)
Having said all that, it's a nice offer that can save me (or somebody
else) a little time and effort, and we should certainly accept.
Raj forwarded:
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.
There's not. Apparently, we've been offered pre-release software...
Cool.
they recompiled the entire damn thing with a different version of
gcc. Hence, there's binary incompatibility with DR1
Wrong. DR1 and DR2 are binary compatable. However, they fixed a bug
in MkLinux gcc so they recommend everything be recompiled anyway.
-Sal.
