I'm wondering, but my next machine, should I build it will be scsi. I've
enjoyed the luxury of booting from cd-rom. Should that be possible with
6.0?
TIA,
Bob
lunaslide wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, you wrote:
> >On 28-Jan-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] shaped the electrons to say:
> >>
> >> I need a little clairification on this kernel 2.2 thing. If I buy
> >> SuSE 6.0 with, presumably kernel 2.0.36, then want to upgrade to
> >> 2.2 (whatever), would I have to download each patch from 2.0.37,
> >> 38, etc to 2.2, or just one patch, then recompile (a process I've
> >> never had the best of luck with). Also, what is in 2.2 that would
> >> make me WANT to recompile? Anybody know? Just curious.
> >
> >
> >
> >SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED :)
> >On my AMD K5 and Cyrix 6x86 Machines it achieves a speed invrease of around
> >30%. Besides that netscape does not die after 3h or so anymore and the Cyrix
> >Machine finally got stable enough to run a Oracle Server with 10 clients.
>
> I agree. and if you have a multiprocessor system, the speed increase is
> enormous. The new Adaptec SCSI driver is great.
>
> >To use the 2.2 kernel you will need to download the whole 2.2 file from either
> >ftp.kernel.org or maybe when a SuSE version comes out from ftp.suse.com and
> >compile it.
> >
> >You will need to throw out the kerneld start files from your start files and
> >you will need to update 2 - 3 packages so everything runs smoothly. But, its
> >absolutely worth the effort.
>
> Perhaps you could be kind enough to list those packages if you know them :-)
> Thank you.
>
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