Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-11 Thread Guy Geens
> "Eric" == Eric G Miller writes: Eric> $ uname -a Linux calico 2.4.14 #1 Sat Nov 10 16:29:17 PST 2001 Eric> i686 unknown Eric> Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not Eric> using...? I don't have a DVD drive... Loopback device is broken. Otherwise it compiles fine. (Ke

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-11 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 23:19:34 -0800, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eric Miller wrote: > > |> Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not using...? > |> I don't have a DVD drive... > > 2.4.14 won't build if you include support for the loopback device. > This has b

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-11 Thread Jim McCloskey
Eric Miller wrote: |> Won't compile at all? Perhaps something breaks, that I'm not using...? |> I don't have a DVD drive... 2.4.14 won't build if you include support for the loopback device. This has been much discussed on the kernel mailing-list. To get it to compile, you have to hand-edit th

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 16:39:17 -0800, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't kn

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:39:17PM -0800, Jim McCloskey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > |> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels > |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet > > Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all > of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (do

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-10 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Similarly, 2.4.10+ are the only kernels |> in the 2.4.x series without major uglies yet Hmm, but 2.4.14 won't compile at all, and you have to avoid all of the kernels from 2.4.10 to 2.4.12 (don't know about 2.4.13) if you want to use the dvd player Xine (don't know if that counts as a `m

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-07 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, op wrote: > Yesterday I installed 2.4.13-ac8 for the ext3 stuff. It didn't work too well > so I reverted to 2.4.13-ac6 which hasn't crashed for 5 hours and 19 > minutes. This is probably because Alan introduced some new IDE code in -ac7. We should see that stuff sta

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-07 Thread op
Yesterday I installed 2.4.13-ac8 for the ext3 stuff. It didn't work too well so I reverted to 2.4.13-ac6 which hasn't crashed for 5 hours and 19 minutes. Also sprach Steve Kieu:> Hi all, > > Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image > > :-) > > Thanks, > > > > = > S.KIEU > > http:

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread dman
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:44:47PM +1100, Steve Kieu wrote: | | Hi all, | | Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image Karsten gave some good rules of thumb. I currenlty have 2.4.10 on my desktop and 2.4.13 on my employer's laptop. I haven't had any problems (other than my mis-configu

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Forgot to mention that my VM troubles was with 2.4.12

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:59:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:44:47PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image > > :-) > > It depends. > > For a stable firewall/gateway system, I'd

Re: Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:44:47PM +1100, Steve Kieu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > > Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image > :-) It depends. For a stable firewall/gateway system, I'd probably go with a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel. Yes, the firewalling code in 2.4 is a lot more c

Which kernel is recommended to run in debian testing?

2001-11-06 Thread Steve Kieu
Hi all, Yes I put this question as I saw a lot kernel image :-) Thanks, = S.KIEU http://briefcase.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Briefcase - Manage your files online.