On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 02:50:45PM -0700, Bill MacAllister wrote: > I would like to try creating a Debian Alpha install disk. For that > effort I tried to spin up a wheezy Alpha yesterday and hit a problem. > The PWS has qLogic cards in it and that is where all of the disks are > attached. It looks like the kernel module support is not there for > the qLogic cards, still. How do we work around that? > > Though maybe I am doing it wrong. Here are the steps I followed. > > 1. Install lenny on the system > 2. Modify sources.list to contain the following lines > > deb http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unstable main > deb-src http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/ unstable main > > 3. dist-upgrade several times
That's a huge jump of versions all at once. I would have thought the new fields in the packages would piss off the old dpkg version in lenny if nothing else. > 4. reboot > > Any suggestions? My scsi cable or scsi disk was broken, so I used IDE on my alpha. I should try and fix scsi one of these days and try it. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
