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Re: kernel 2.2.9, slink and Sparc



"Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@delphi.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:33:18PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
> > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:39:14PM +0200, Andreas Jaehnigen wrote:

>>> "Debian 2.1 is not certified for use with the Linux 2.2
>>> kernel. However, if you are willing to download some packages from
>>> ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/, you should be able to
>>> have a functioning system. "

>>> What does "some packages" mean here? What packages do I need?  I'm
>>> also very thankful for further references regarding this
>>> topic. :-)

See <URL:http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2>

> I have been runing 2.1x kernels since 2.1.119 on systems from 2.0 on up
> and I have personally run into no problems at all.
> (on i386 even)

Your a lucky one.  For most folks, such as myself, slink + kernel 2.2
isn't that bad at all.  But see the web page cited above.

--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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