Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:28:06AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: [..] I am thinking of buying a new box from an outfit in the UK Golden Electronics. For 170 GBP they will give you a box (no monitor) that has an AMD 64 Sempron CPU and a decent hard drive and other gear etc Plus 512

dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM. Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux uname says that I am running the 2.4.27-2 kernel. During the installation the installer decided to use

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM. Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux uname says that I am running the

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:53:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM. Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:53:30 +0200 On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I am running

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: First you should try installing the kernel available in sarge. Use aptitude install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7 I did this. It worked. uname -a Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.6.8-3-k7 #1 Tue Dec 5 23:58:25 UTC 2006 i686

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200 On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: First you should try installing

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 01:28 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200 On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +

Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....

2006-12-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:28:06AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:58:18 +0200 On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 12:47:31AM