Neil Gunton wrote: > Thanks again for all your help, it's been most illuminating! Seems like > every time I think I have linux down pat, then I try to do something on a > new machine and have to spend a week just getting the hardware working... > Linux, it's always good for your humility!
Neil, You've probably already thought of this, but after years of building installing Linux on unsupported disk controllers, I've given up on attempting to build custom driver or installer disks to support the new hardware. These days, as soon as I find out the controller is unsupported, I just pop on old, small IDE drive off the shelf into the system and install the OS on that. Then, of course, it's a simple matter of building a custom kernel, booting to single user mode, and copying the OS from the temporary IDE drive to the SCSI drive. One nice thing about Debian is that after the initial installation, you can easily upgrade to new versions without every going through a reinstallation. Last I looked, RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE require reinstallations to upgrade to new versions. Kevin -- Kevin Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
