Comments on: Alpha Linux on Qemu

By: wzis

wzis — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 06:34:02 +0000

My bad, I later found the DVD is the debian-5010-alpha-netinst.iso, not the full DVD. Sorry.

By: wzis

wzis — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 05:35:41 +0000

When I install the Linux from the debian-5010-alpha-DVD-1.iso, it hung at quite a late stage, and I cancel it, then boot from the disk, trying to mount the DVD to see if I can install gcc, but found a strange issue: inside the pool/main/g/gcc-4.3/, I can only see 3 files there while there are many other files there if we check from Windows for the DVD.

By: wzis

wzis — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:37:55 +0000

In reply to neozeed. You are so great!!! I tried to find alpha Linux download, but could not found it. Thanks so much!!!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 01:19:02 +0000

In reply to wzis.

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/5.0.10/alpha/iso-dvd/

Try here

By: wzis

wzis — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 23:31:26 +0000

In reply to neozeed. Yes, I used the debian-5010-alpha-netinst.iso to install, it doesn't provide any choice for you select a development oriented selections to install the OS. And I searched the web, couldn't find the full list of packages for this version of Linux, only can see some gzipped files with a few meg in size, that does not look like a full distribution. So, still can't find the GCC package, but the apt-get install gcc-4.3-base said it is installed already, but when check it's only a empty dir.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 22:52:53 +0000

In reply to wzis. It's the bare minimum installation so yeah no gcc. The disk is probably too small too. There should be some DVD images floating around. You would need to do a real install

By: wzis

wzis — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:49:01 +0000

In reply to neozeed. I tried to install and then used the initrd.img-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic you supplied, it can boot up and I can log in. However, I couldn't find gcc on the system and also found the version of Linux is the last version debian had supported the Alpha. Can't find packages for development on the internet. It's a pity.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:45:01 +0000

In reply to wzis. no problem! and thanks for the follow up, as otherwise people from the future would be wondering!

By: wzis

wzis — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 08:36:22 +0000

In reply to neozeed.

[root@fc31 alpha]# qemu-system-alpha –version
QEMU emulator version 4.1.1 (qemu-4.1.1-1.fc31)
Copyright (c) 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
Thanks again for your great work and help.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:25:00 +0000

In reply to wzis. Oh good! what version of Qemu is it?