Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
My $0.02 on make-kpkg, for one off kernels on my home machine I prefer the old fasioned/standard way of make bzImage. I have a lot more control over the build process that way. for kernels that will be distributed to many machines make-kpkg r0ckz. -jon

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, August 24, 2001 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I can more easily revert back to my old kernel without a .deb, because > the old kernel is still there, ready to be used. Whenever I build a > kernel, I keep the old one around for a while > > Lastly, and most importantly, the resultin

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > In case your new kernel does not work as u want or some bugs etc. than u > can easily revert back to your old kernel. I can more easily revert back to my old kernel without a .deb, because the old kernel is still there, ready to be used. Whenever I build a kernel, I keep t

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hall Stevenson saw fit to inform me that: >> >>it is in the standard kernels. >> >> > I am not talking about debian kernels. >> >> I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They >> are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are >> (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I >> know 2.4

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-24 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
thomas saw fit to inform me that: >>>it is in the standard kernels. > >> I am not talking about debian kernels. > >I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They are obviously not in >linus' kernels but they are (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some >time?). I know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Craig Dickson
Hall Stevenson wrote: > We're at 2.4.9pre?? and still no ext3 support... "pre" nothing; 2.4.9 has been out for several days now. Stephen Tweedie, the principal creator of ext3, says he'll suggest adding ext3 to Linus's official kernel during 2.5 development. Craig

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> >>it is in the standard kernels. > > > I am not talking about debian kernels. > > I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They > are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are > (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I > know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. > Can

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread thomas
>>it is in the standard kernels. > I am not talking about debian kernels. I wasnt talking about debian kernels either :) They are obviously not in linus' kernels but they are (have been?) in AC's kernels (for some time?). I know 2.4.7-ac11 has it cause i'm using it right now. Can only be a matter

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
thomas saw fit to inform me that: >> Red hat guys seem to be coming up with their next release with ext3 file >> system support. Still the ext3 patch is not put in the standard kernels. >> Patch has to be separatly applied. I think shortly it will make its way in >> the standard kernel as well. >

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread thomas
>> it is in the standard kernels. > Are you sure about that ?? It's in Alan Cox's -AC series, but > not in Linus' that I know of. you are right. i've been using -AC's since forever now and forget about it. mea culpa. !thomas

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
> > Red hat guys seem to be coming up with their next > > release with ext3 file system support. Still the ext3 > > patch is not put in the standard kernels. Patch has > > to be separatly applied. I think shortly it will make > > its way in the standard kernel as well. > > it is in the standard ker

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread thomas
> Red hat guys seem to be coming up with their next release with ext3 file > system support. Still the ext3 patch is not put in the standard kernels. > Patch has to be separatly applied. I think shortly it will make its way in > the standard kernel as well. it is in the standard kernels. !thomas

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Slaven Peles
On August 22, 2001 03:31 pm, Nathan Weston wrote: > probably won't be able to do. I was recently in a similar situation to you > (wanting to migrate from RedHat). From my experience, installing debian > will be hard. You will spend long hours reading man pages and HOWTOs and > banging your head aga

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-23 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Nathan Weston saw fit to inform me that: > The hardest part may be ReiserFS... AFAIK debian won't do this during the >install... you will probably have to roll a custom kernel and migrate >partitions after installation. But don't take my word on this... hopefully >someone more knowledgeable wi

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Nathan Weston
Debian unstable should be able to give you all of the end results you are looking for. However, you also want to get these things easily -- ie, good hardware detection, ReiserFS by default during the install, etc. This you probably won't be able to do. I was recently in a similar situation to yo

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Mobarry
Avdi B. Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I want out-of-box: Libranet is the closest debian solution to your requirements: ReierFS, up-to-date kde, gnome, etc. A new version will be out by the end of August, according to their newsletter. I use it at home because I don't have a bro

Re: Choosing a Debian Variant

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Massey
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 07:29:39AM -0700, Avdi B. Grimm wrote: > Here's what I want out-of-box: No, I really shouldn't say it. But anyway. What you've just asked for reads almost exactly like the specs for Mandrake 8.1 (due out in a month or so). In my experience, you're not going to get this o