[Aurora-sparc-announce] [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Project Build 0.2 is out and about

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

To all who dare,

The Aurora Project is proud to announce Build 0.2 of its release, 
this time, with lots and lots of rpms. It can be found here:

ftp://linuxpower.org/pub/aurora/build-0.2/

The web page at aurora.linuxpower.org has been updated to express the same 
things as this email. I'm still not a web designer. ;)

Almost all packages are built at this point. The kernel doesn't boot, and 
is just present for headers, so install the 2.4 headers and use the 2.2 
kernel from the RHL 6.2 tree. The only packages missing are anaconda and the 
kernel. Oh yes, Xconfigurator is still broken.

Where does Aurora go from here? Now, we need to fix anaconda, so that we 
can have an installable tree, and hopefully, get a kernel SRPM that makes 
booting kernels on sparc32 & sparc64. Once these things are done, then we 
can start serious bughunting and fixing.

In only a month, we've come a long way, and I have a lot of people to 
thank for that:

Jakub Jelinek, Ingo Storm, Peter Jones, Alex Buell, Thorsten Kukuk, Bryan 
Headley, Jeremy Katz, Jeff Johnson, Dave Miller, Ben Collins, Sean Dilda, 
Hunter Matthews, and the ten to twenty other people who I've forgotten 
(forgive me?).

Thank you all, for contributing in one fashion or another.

Please report bugs of any kind, and thanks for your patience.

And now, a brief howto on installing Aurora:

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Chinian Wang wrote:

> Is there any how-to or faq, so I can start to test in my Ultra1 :-)

Right now, the easiest way to install Aurora is still by hand. We don't 
have any howtos or faqs yet, (would anyone like to do one?) I was putting 
off starting one until we had anaconda working, and Aurora was able to 
be installed standalone.

To install Aurora currently:

Install Red Hat Linux 6.2 for Sparc. 
Apply all updates from 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/sparc
Download everything (or just download what you installed) from the 
latest Aurora RPM tree:
ftp://linuxpower.org/pub/aurora/build-0.2/RPMS
Upgrade the packages with rpm:

rpm -Uvh *.rpm (this is easiest if you've done an "Everything install" 
when you install 6.2)

Its not a very graceful process, but it should work. When anaconda is 
fixed, this will be a much simpler process.

~spot 
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