Re: do I have to use Redhat?
FYI, 2.0.37 has been released (also 2.2.10). Bob On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 11:13:38AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Graham Seaman wrote: BTW, the 2.0.37-pre series supports these controllers. I suppose I should get busy and build a set of boot floppies that uses this kernel. If you do that, can you make an announcement if you can make them available? Otherwise, I guess its down to waiting for the official potato release... Thanks Graham I will try to do that this week and yes, I will place it someplace for the community to get if they like. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: do I have to use Redhat?
There are no install disks for potato yet. I also had trouble with this very problem a while back. My solution was to borrow a supported controller for installing slink and then building a new kernel and swapping the controllers back. There was really no other way. BTW, the 2.0.37-pre series supports these controllers. I suppose I should get busy and build a set of boot floppies that uses this kernel. If you do that, can you make an announcement if you can make them available? Otherwise, I guess its down to waiting for the official potato release... Thanks Graham
do I have to use Redhat?
Hi, I've been using debian for a while but am still a relative newbie. I just bought a new pc with Advansys Initio SCSI driver. The supplier asked me what OS I wanted; I asked for Linux. They told me I would have to use RedHat, since the Initio drivers (which are only supplied in binary format) have only been in the kernel from 2.2.6 on. So I have a RedHat system - but I don't like it much and would prefer to have Debian. I know how to upgrade the kernel, given a particular distribution - what I don't know is how to change the distribution given a particular kernel (I'd also like to redo the partitioning, so I really need to start everything from scratch). I can't just run through the normal Debian installation procedure since the install program (logically) can't see my hard drive. Do I have to wait for potato, or is there some way round this? Thanks Graham
Re: do I have to use Redhat?
Graham Seaman wrote: Hi, I've been using debian for a while but am still a relative newbie. I just bought a new pc with Advansys Initio SCSI driver. The supplier asked me what OS I wanted; I asked for Linux. They told me I would have to use RedHat, since the Initio drivers (which are only supplied in binary format) have only been in the kernel from 2.2.6 on. So I have a RedHat system - but I don't like it much and would prefer to have Debian. I know how to upgrade the kernel, given a particular distribution - what I don't know is how to change the distribution given a particular kernel (I'd also like to redo the partitioning, so I really need to start everything from scratch). I can't just run through the normal Debian installation procedure since the install program (logically) can't see my hard drive. Do I have to wait for potato, or is there some way round this? If this is not a production system, i.e. you make a living with it, You could go ahead and install potato. I have had no real problems with it, when installed from scratch, as it is reasonably solid. The only other way is to build a custom rescue disk image with the compiled kernel image that you need on it. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: do I have to use Redhat?
You can upgrade to potato using Apt/dselect. I did this recently after purchasing a cheapbytes of Slink. I realized the Xwindows with Slink doesn't support my video card. Anyway, just reinstall your system making the partition changes you want, then choose to install packages via Internet, but select dists/unstable main contrib non-free. Choose the minimum number of packages that you can live with at first (cause this take several hours with a dial-up) but make sure you get the kernel-source-2.2.9 package so you can compile a new kernel. Of course, if you have to pay for Internet by usage or if your connections are often dropped this may not be an ideal solution. You might try ordering a snapshot CD of Potato (check the debian site for who supplies them) as this will certainly save the PPP long download. -- -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the A HREF=http://www.debian.org;POTATO/A!
Re: do I have to use Redhat?
partition changes you want, then choose to install packages via Internet, but select dists/unstable main contrib non-free. I would say dists/potato instead of dists/unstable; here is why: I once used dists/unstable, and everything worked fine until the next debian version changeover (such as the one that will soon occur). At that point, since I had told the system to use unstable, I was upgraded to the NEW unstable. This is not what I expected, and I was surprised when, suddenly, over a hundred pacakges were upgraded. And whereas potato is realtively usable, brand new unstable archives often have many bugs and pacakging problems. I am not sure why we actually have those two symlinks (except for historical purposes) instead of files named 'stable-is-slink' and 'unstable-is-potato', but there is probably a good reason. Nonetheless, if you don't ALWAYS want the unstable version, use a real distribution name instead of 'unstable'. Carl
