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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