The fact that the commands are different, for example bitchx instead of BitchX and everything I foudn was out of date. voy1d
Faith No More summed up life well, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" ----- Original Message ----- From: Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:38 PM Subject: Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato > "voy1d" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the > > fact > > the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian. > > But > > yeah, they don't really look after the updates etc, so I wouldn't > > bother > > with it. > > Huh? Which packages are all wrong? The current version of Storm is Slink > with a few extra value-added packages like the Storm Package Manager, a > front-end to apt. I installed Storm and have upgraded all the way to > Woody without any problems. Storm uses a slightly customised kernel > which gives frame-buffer support and provides the graphical boot screen, > and a slightly customised lilo to give the graphical boot-manager > screen. You are not forced to use these, and indeed as soon as you > upgrade you lose both features unless you use a new Storm-patched kernel > and put Storm's lilo on hold. > > So, you can upgrade your Storm installation exactly as if were plain > Debian, without any problems, and can, if you wish, retain any Storm > features along the way. I really don't see why you have a problem. > Perhaps you could explain more. > > > -- > Phillip Deackes > Using Storm Linux 2000 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
