Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA
--- Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Farley wrote: --- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really should be using Etch. Well, some of us prefer not to live at the bleeding edge. Sometimes when you have bleeding edge technology you need bleeding edge on your distro to make it work. Bleeding edge technology?!?! I bought the Dell 8400 as-is and used (from the Dell bargain area) over two years ago. Bleeding edge it ain't. Snipped Given that Windows /generally/ has better hardware driver support than Linux on the newest hardware if XP needed patching then Sarge might just be a tad too old to take advantage of the SATA drive. Unpleasant, maybe. Dems da facts, yeah. :/ If a 2+ year-old machine is bleeding edge, what does that make the latest Dell quad-core game monsters with dual-X1900 video cards? Now *that* is what *I* call bleeding edge. C'mon, a simple old system like a Dell 8400 should be long-since supported by stable code, even among the volunteer community. FYI, the FC6 install disk sees all my drives, no problem (though I grant you this, FC6 *is* more recent than sarge). However, I may give it one more try with Etch just to see if it's better. But I'll probably be using FC6 before that. My $0.02USD only, you are certainly entitled to your own. Peter 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with the Yahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#news -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA
--- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 12:30:23PM -0800, Peter Farley wrote: Bleeding edge technology?!?! I bought the Dell 8400 as-is and used (from the Dell bargain area) over two years ago. Bleeding edge it ain't. As Andrew pointed out, Etch is going to release anytime now and has been in freeze for a few months. Calling it bleeding edge is not correct. Well, OK, maybe Etch isn't bleeding edge either. Mea culpa. C'mon, a simple old system like a Dell 8400 should be long-since supported by stable code, even among the volunteer community. Well, the 2.6.8 kernel (shipped with Sarge) was released on 14 August 2004. At *that* time, the machine was bleeding edge compared to the kernel support for SATA. Hm-m. OK, I didn't realize Sarge went back that far. Now that I review the Sarge package versions for some things that are important to me, I bow to your collective wisdom -- Sarge is not what I want or need. Thanks for your help in curing my ignorance. Peter Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA
Hi all, Trying to install Sarge to Dell 8400 w/internal SATA from jigdo'd i386 DVD. Kernel 2.4 fails to see SATA internal HDD entirely (CD access OK). With kernel 2.6 using expert26 I can wait to load ata_piix driver until after CD is accessed, but STILL does not see SATA drive, only external USB 2.0 IDE HDD. Web and google searches led me to believe this problem was resolved in current 2.6 kernels, is there still a problem? If so, is there any workaround? (Other than changing BIOS to compatibility mode, I do NOT want to go there, still need WinXP partition on SATA to work for other family use.) Yes, I filed a failed install report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also reported complete failure with 2.4 kernel (neither SATA nor USB drives detected). TIA for any help or info you can provide. Peter Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help w/failed Sarge install - Dell 8400+SATA
--- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You really should be using Etch. Well, some of us prefer not to live at the bleeding edge. Regards, Peter Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I apt-get upgrade the kernel for debian-390?
Thanks for that info, Scott. I'll do that and see what I get. Peter --- Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snipped kernels are special in debian since you have to reboot for them to take effect. apt-cache search kernel-image should show you all the kernels avaliable. Choose one and apt-get install it making sure your boot loader recognizes the new one. Then reboot and enjoy. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I apt-get upgrade the kernel for debian-390?
I got it from a DVD install disc for s390 that I bought from linux-cd.com, plus whatever the install process got from the stable archive. The installation was done six weeks or so ago. The disc was burned around Feb 9, 2003, AFAIK. Thanks for the url for s390 kernel-images. Peter --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snipped I'm curious. Where did you get that kernel? The stable archive lists six 2.4.18 kernels but none is for s390. Go here: http://tux.cprm.net/pub/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.19-s390/ Download the image to your hard drive and install it with dpkg -i full_file_name. AFAIK the kernel image you install stays on the system -- it's not a package that can be removed or upgraded like most other things (I'd like to see this change). __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I apt-get upgrade the kernel for debian-390?
OK, I went to that link and downloaded what looks like the right files (please tell me if I downloaded the right ones: ipv6-modules-2.4.19-s390-udeb_2.4.19-2_s390.udeb kernel-image-2.4.19-s390_2.4.19-2.dsc kernel-image-2.4.19-s390_2.4.19-2.tar.gz kernel-image-2.4.19-s390-udeb_2.4.19-2_s390.udeb nic-modules-2.4.19-s390-udeb_2.4.19-2_s390.udeb It looks like I need to install three things, the kernel-image, the ipv6- and nic-modules. But what are these .udeb files? Are these unstable deb's? I would rather install at least a testing kernel, I'm not quite ready to be on the bleeding edge. Should I have downloaded the woody-2 files at that link instead? Thanks again for the info, and for any further help you can provide this debian newbie. Peter --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:17:43 -0800 (PST) Snipped Go here: http://tux.cprm.net/pub/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.19-s390/ Download the image to your hard drive and install it with dpkg -i full_file_name. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I apt-get upgrade the kernel for debian-390?
I am running stable debian-390 under the hercules emulator on an RH7.3 base system, and the debian-390 kernel is 2.4.17-s390. I have set up my sources.list to add the testing release, but neither apt-get upgrade nor dpkg -l seem to have anything for the kernel itself. Is the kernel not upgradeable with apt-get? I don't want to build a kernel, I just want to install a more current kernel image version than what is in stable. Is that even possible? TIA for any info, RTFM's, faqs, etc. you can offer. Peter __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
