Well, the 2.1.7 didn't arrive this weekend so I tested the old ones on a
spare partition of a quite run-of-the-mill computer: P-200, Intel TX
Mainboard, Adaptec 2940 controller, 2GB harddisk, 32M RAM, miro22SD graphics
card, ne2000 compatible.
To be short: there was nothing spectacular, i.e. these floppies are really
great.
A little bit more specific:
- I booted from the rescue disk, selected the keyboard, partitioned the
harddisk (there was some unpartitioned space left on the disk) and installed
the kernel and the drivers. Absolutely everyhing right so far.
- When I configured the drivers there was a message saying no parameter
documentation was available for a few modules. I didn't note these as I
understand this is already taken care of.
- Configuring the network and installing the base system over NFS worked
ok.
- I then made the computer bootable from the harddisk (no segfault this time,
good!) selected Linux as the default and rebooted. Ok.
- I used apt pointing to our local mirror as the install method and selected
the base install only (I wanted to test the boot floppies mostly). This run
without asking anything except:
- for mail configuration (this is ok).
- it noted /etc/motd as a changed configfile
This would be a surprise for the first time user who really didn't
change anything upto now. Is base-files newer on slink/base than in the
tarball?
I then setup an X server which was almost ok except for a few things which
should be reported elsewhere.
I think this is really about release-time.
Nils
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| L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 |
| W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit |
* W>working today and rise on easter? *
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