Le sam 21/06/2003 à 19:26, John Goerzen a écrit : > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still > > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works. > > Assuming it supports your hardware. Which it is not entirely likely to do. > For instance: > > Many video cards require XFree 4.3.x or above. They require agpgart in the > kernel. They require iwconfig and other wireless tools. There are a whole > host of things that are not necessarily going to work from old > distributions, and the situation is only getting worse. Then you can still debootstrap the old distribution inside your existing system and run your software from the chroot. This is possible as long as the kernel supports libc5, and even if it gets dropped, there is user-mode-linux. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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