Re: help needed on installing Debian 4.0 on A180C

[Angelo Machils <angelo.machils@gmail.com>]

On 16-jul-2007, at 18:31, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Monday 16 July 2007 08:44, Angelo Machils wrote:
> > I'm sorry to say so, but apparently it *is* possible. uname -r gives
> > me a 2.4.xxxxx kernel as response. I did do an install of 3.0r4 and
> > *then* a dist-upgrade to 4.0rx, perhaps that is the reason.
>
> The title of your mail says "help needed _installing_ Debian 4.0",
> not "help needed _upgrading to_ Debian 4.0". That is a pretty  
> fundamental
> difference and you put people trying to help you completely on the  
> wrong
> foot by mixing up these terms.
> Also, it is not really advisable to try *upgrading* from Debian to  
> Ubuntu
> or vice versa. They are completely separate distributions, and some
> differences can cause problems. It may be possible, but mixing  
> Debian and
> Ubuntu in any way is not guaranteed to work and you are basically  
> on your
> own to solve any resulting issues.
>
> If you are upgrading from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch, I suggest  
> you read
> the release notes for Etch [1].
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/hppa/release-notes/

Hello,

No disrespect intended, but my original mail was pretty clear about  
wanting to install 4.0 but having problems with it, and then I wrote  
that an install of 3.0 would work, so someone on this list suggested  
to do that first and then a dist-upgrade. So perhaps reading my  
original mail would clarify it for you?!

Besides that, I never suggested I did an update from Debian to Ubuntu  
(as far as I know, there is no Ubuntu for HPPA), I just stated that I  
had some experience with Ubuntu and also asked if there was a  
sources.list builder for HPPA Debian like there is for (i386/x64/PPC)  
Ubuntu.

With kind regards,
Angelo Machils