Debian and Pentium 4
One of our profs bought a Dell 8100 Pentium 4 for home use and he wants to install Linux on it. He would like to install Debian, but he says that Debian doesn't support the Pentium 4 yet. Is this true? Kay
Re: Palm/Visor handheld support from Debian?
It's a USB cradle that you get by default, and I haven't seen any info on the Linux USB pages that anyone has these devices working yet. I'm running a 2.3.42 kernel and got the USB port working with Visor cradle yesterday. There are instructions for setting it up in Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt. There is a webpage on the Visor portion of the driver at: http://usbvisor.sourceforge.net/ Kay
2.1 kernel
Is anyone using a 2.1 kernel? Which version is the most stable? We have people complaining about slow NFS service and we want to try NFS version 3. Thanks, Kay
debian in a lab
Hi, We're planning on installing debian in a lab of about 50 machines and were wondering if anyone had come up with a good way to install it over the net. We want to spend as little time on each machine as possible. Each machine will be on the net. We've thought of a couple of ways to do this, like: creating a template machine and then stuffing the disk image on all the others, or just using the normal debian install (but we're worried we'd have to spend to much time on each machine). There are a couple of other questions we have as well. Has anyone nfs mounted /usr and if so how do you handle updates to packages? Also, what is the process for creating local packages that override standard packages? Thanks, Kay
