Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Oki DZ
Salman Ahmed wrote: ... > Although I don't advocate (re)compiling kernels your situation sounds > like one where it might help. Have you tried to compile a kernel from > sources ? Either the 2.0.36 or one of the 2.2.x ones. Another poster to > this thread mentioned this as well. You might want to

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Oki DZ
Ben Collins wrote: ... > Please stop trolling for comparisons here. Comparing how Debian works, to > how RedHat works, is like comparing Church and Government. They are two > different things, and have two different philosophies. Agree. If somebody wants to compare things, compare Linux with NT.

(getting closer) Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I'm having major problems upgrading from slink to potato (stable to > unstable apt sources). After one of the packages is being setup, I get > a whole list of stuff like this: > depmod: /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/SOMETHING.o is not owned by root OK, I think we're getting closer. When I upgrade f

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 06:54:54PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > RH's mailing lists have more people which means more people to > volunteer to answer questions. When I go to newsgroups, it's easy to > spot a good or bad one. In a bad one, you'll see a list of posts with RedHat has tech support _emp

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-17 Thread Bart Szyszka
> Another thing to consider, this is a volunteer list. People reply when > they can and when they have time. No one is *obliged* to reply to every > single post made to debian-user. Right, but it's a bit disheartening for me when I don't get help from the Debian community when I know I could easily

Re: Upgrade from slink to potato causes things to stop working

1999-11-16 Thread John Stevenson
Hello, Did you install a new kernel when you upgraded to potato?? If so, did you install from sources or from a kernel image? I updated from slink to potato on my laptop at the weekend and had no real problems with the upgrade. However, I did make sure that I had all the packages I needed in