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Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing



On Sun, 12 May 1996, Scott Barker wrote:

> I just went through a base upgrade from 0.93R6 to 1.1 using Dale Scheetz's
> upgrade notes. Before I begin upgrading anything else, I though I would make
> some comments.
> 
> Firstly, things went very smoothly. However, there were some minor snags:
> 
> 1) modconf depends on dialog, and I didn't have dialog installed. You might
>    want to alter your upgrade notes to reflect that, Dale. Or, perhaps the
>    debian maintainers can remove modconf from the base system, or include
>    dialog in the base system.
> 
This is true. It was noted in my original pencil scrawl but failed to make
it to the final script (probably because it got "fixed" on the test bench)
I will add it back as a commented out line with a note in the base_list
file, thanks!

> 2) modules installs kerneld. This is broken on two levels:
>    a) kerneld doesn't seem to work with kernel 1.2.13, which I am currently
>       using, and I imagine most people are using since it's the stable
>       version (I see the version provided is 1.3.64 -- is it smart to offer a
>       development kernel on what's supposed to become a production system?)
>    b) the kerneld daemon is handled in *both* /etc/init.d/boot and it's own
>       /etc/init.d/kerneld script. I would imagine it should only have one
>       starting point, preferably in the boot script, since the
>       mount -avt nonfs  depends on the modules for filesystems (dos, sysv,
>       etc)
If you don't want to move to a higher level kernel, then you don't want to
upgrade modules, image, or source. You may not want to upgrade sysklogd
although I had no trouble with it.

Luck,

Dwarf

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