Bug#105451: update
tags 105451 + potato
thanks
Andrew Young <aty@sciences.sdsu.edu> writes:
> It appears that the "compact" flavor has no support for serial
> ports.
It does in unstable. Please try the unstable version, that is,
boot-floppies 3.0.7 or better.
> Probably I could have avoided all this trouble by trying the "vanilla"
> flavor to start with; but Chapter 5 of the Installation manual gives no
> indication that serial support is missing from "compact"; it just talks
> about other less-basic driver categories. So I suggest that this issue
> be dealt with in the section on "Choosing a kernel".
It was a kernel bug in Potato if the compact kernel didn't have
serial, a bug which has since been fixed.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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