Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
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

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-14 Thread Graham Seaman
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

do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Graham Seaman
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)

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread John Foster
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

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Eric G. Miller
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,

Re: do I have to use Redhat?

1999-06-13 Thread Carl Mummert
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