On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:02:00AM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: > At a BALUG meeting last spring I heard a talk by mondo's inceptor, Hugo > Rabson, who took some special time to trash Debian. His beef is with > Debian's initrd-enabled kernels which mondo either doesn't handle at all > or doesn't handle well. If you have problems, I'd try building & > installing a kernel with initrd disabled and see if it helps.
I wanted to go to that meeting (but was out of town) and ask about Debian support. I wanted to ask what the specific issues were. I had problems with Mondo and on the list there were comments that Debian was the problem, even though I had built my kernel from kernel.org source. Plus, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/1.6x-howto/kernelsupport.html says: Your kernel must have: * initrd ramdisk support (built-in) So it's confusing. I also asked (also with conflicting suggestions from the Mondo list) what exactly was "Virtual memory file system support (built-in)". I was told[1] That I needed cramfs, but the docs say that I don't want cramfs. I wish that page listed the actual kernel parameter required. > See the Mondo website, http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo > They have an active mailing list. Not only do they claim to support > Debian 3.0, I just checked out their website and found that the text > that used to say something like "Why I hate Debian" has been replaced > with a blurb that starts out "I used to badmouth Debian's distro ... > However, recent releases are much improved ..." Thanks, Hugo, that > really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. ;) So have you given it a try lately, Paul? [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2573399&forum_id=5086 -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
