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>3. Pre-Built Standard MILO Images.</A
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>If you are planning to run Linux on a standard Alpha based system, then
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there are pre-built "standard" MILO images that you might use.
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The original images (along with the sources and other interesting stuff)
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can be found in
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>gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/Digital/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader</A
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>The <TT
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> subdirectory contains a directory per standard system
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(eg AlphaPC64) with MILO images having the following naming convention:</P
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> <TT
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>MILO</TT
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> - Miniloader executable image, this image can be loaded in a
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variety of ways,</P
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> <TT
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> - Boot block floppy disk image.
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These should be written using rawrite.exe or <TT
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>The <TT
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>, like the <TT
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contains a directory per standard system. These images are somewhat
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experimental but tend to contain all the latest features.</P
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>Digital/Compaq is no longer doing any work on MILO itself. However several people have picked up
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where Compaq left off.</P
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> Stefan Reinauer has done the work to get MILO to build against the 2.2 series of kernels. His
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work is available from <A
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> http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~stepan/Milo</A
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> and is mirrored by AlphaLinux.Org at
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> ftp://ftp.alphalinux.org/pub/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/v2.2</A
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> Nikita Schmidt has updated the existing MILO source to provide support for the changes in the ext2
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filesystem, as well as adding in many other bug fixes and patches. His version are available from
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>ftp://genie.ucd.ie/pub/alpha/milo</A
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