no its not safe to assume if it works with mandrake it will work with slink, ESPECIALLY if it comes to graphics cards and sound cards, maybe even network cards. i bought that same book, its great, and the cd is great, i did encounter a problem that the install defaulted to kernel 2.2.12 and did not include a binary driver for my Realtek 8139 graphics card(which i still dont get why even if it is experimental) after installing the 2.0.36 kernel i was able to get the network card working. Slink uses a very old(by today's standards) version of X, and may not support(fully) graphics cards made in the past year (TNT, TNT2, G200/G400, S3 Savage series etc) i suggest grabbing a binary server before you upgrade, or just copy the server from mandrake(copy the config file too).
it may be a bitch to install, but once its done its well worth it. i've learned some hard lessons, one of which is that debian is a breeze to install ..didnt learn that one till i installed IRIX 6.2 ;) nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:39pm up 76 days, 10:06, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.38, 0.36 On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Steve Winston wrote: > > I am going to install Debian Gnu-Linux (the version to > come out bundled with an Oreilly text) on a hard drive > that already has win98 on it. The same machine has > linux mandrake 6.0 on a separate hard drive (the > master drive on this computer), and it works super > with linux mandrake. > I have some questions: > 1. If the computer works with linux mandrake, then am > I safe to assume that everything will be compatible > with Debian Gnu-linux? > 2. Win98 occupies 5gb of a 10gb hard drive. The rest > of the drive is not partitioned. I will stick the > debian distribution there. Will the Debian lilo let me > boot into Win98? Right now, linux mandrake recognizes > the win98 partition on the slave drive, but when I try > to boot into windows with lilo, win98 insists it sees > a nonsystem disk in the a drive and refuses to boot > up. > So, I am using the BIOS to switch between the two hard > drives. > 3. Is there anything special I should know THAT ISN'T > COVERED IN THE DOCUMENTATION before I start? Any > advice some of you have to offer? > adios, Steve W. > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
