slink->potato, 2.0.35->2.2.x

[Michael Stroucken <stroucki@debian.org>]

Hello,

	I'm trying to upgrade slink to potato on my LX164, and I've run
into the lchown situation, where packages refuse to install, because links
cannot be lchowned, because the function isn't implemented. I've fixed the
broken libnss links, and manually extracted the packages, in hope that a
library had that function, but nothing worked yet sofar. I was also
thinking that a 2.2 kernel would provide support for lchown, but 2.2
kernels start up ok, but then the rc scripts generate many segfaults
(apparently from trap?) and it all dies before i can login. So what's up
with this, I guess some people are running 2.2 kernels on Alpha already.
Apparently Loic hasn't made any 2.2 based boot floppies/base install set,
so I have to start out with a 2.0.35 base right now.

Thanks in advance for any help,
Michael.