On Sun, 12 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote: > I just went through a base upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 using Dale Scheetz's > upgrade notes. Before I begin upgrading anything else, I though I would make > some comments. > > Firstly, things went very smoothly. However, there were some minor snags: > > 1) modconf depends on dialog, and I didn't have dialog installed. You might > want to alter your upgrade notes to reflect that, Dale. Or, perhaps the > debian maintainers can remove modconf from the base system, or include > dialog in the base system. > This is true. It was noted in my original pencil scrawl but failed to make it to the final script (probably because it got "fixed" on the test bench) I will add it back as a commented out line with a note in the base_list file, thanks!
> 2) modules installs kerneld. This is broken on two levels: > a) kerneld doesn't seem to work with kernel 1.2.13, which I am currently > using, and I imagine most people are using since it's the stable > version (I see the version provided is 1.3.64 -- is it smart to offer a > development kernel on what's supposed to become a production system?) > b) the kerneld daemon is handled in *both* /etc/init.d/boot and it's own > /etc/init.d/kerneld script. I would imagine it should only have one > starting point, preferably in the boot script, since the > mount -avt nonfs depends on the modules for filesystems (dos, sysv, > etc) If you don't want to move to a higher level kernel, then you don't want to upgrade modules, image, or source. You may not want to upgrade sysklogd although I had no trouble with it. Luck, Dwarf ------------ -------------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask --------------