I have successfully installed (from scratch) the debian 1.1 beta on two server machines (an i-386 and an i-486). Everything seems to be working as planned and I have no complaints. I am getting ready to *upgrade* my existing pentium machine (my main workstation) from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta. I have all the relevant notes on upgrading and I think this should go smoothly. However, before I do this I have one simple question:
I have a couple of commercial packages: (1) Tecplot, and (2) NAG Fortran-90/libraries. Because these packages worked fine under 0.93R6, they obviously are a.out executables. Will these executables work OK under an elf-based system such as debian 1.1? I have already experienced a problem with NAG as I now have a mixed system that includes libc5 (and not libc4) libraries. My new v 1.1 systems show both libc4 and libc5 in the installation, so NAG will probably work with such a system? Perhaps these questions would best be answered by the vendors (since I did pay for them), but this information might be useful for the community at large. -- /------------------------------------------------------------------\ | James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D. | Phone: (423)576-8645 | | L | | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | FAX: (423)574-9172 | H | I | | Research Reactors Division | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | F | N | | P. O. Box 2008 | Reactor Technology | I | U | | Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6392 | world's best neutrons! | R | X | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | out the 10Base-T, through the router, down the T1, over the | | leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall...nothing but Net | \------------------------------------------------------------------/