Re: Points to Ponder
On Sat, 28 Nov 1998, BOHICA wrote:
: If the author of the utility loadlin.exe (Hans Lerman) has stated on his web
: page (http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen) that all versions greater than
: 2.1.22 should be installed with the updated version of loadlin (v1.6a) due
: to memory detection problems, why is Debian still distributing v1.6?
:
: Why doesn't Debian also distribute the loadlin manual and parameters
: documents (total 32Kb and 13Kb respectively) when the loadlin.exe file
: refers to them for help with settings, switches, etc.? Or at least post the
: link to Hans Lermen's homepage on the main debian.org website?
Good questions - why not ask the loadlin maintainer, or at least bring
it up on -devel?
: When the SLINK distribution was frozen, why weren't the installation
: documents upgraded as well? They should address the fact that the 1.73Mb
: floppy will not work for some machines and that a separate ROOT floppy is
: also needed in addition to the usual disks if a floppy install is done.
It won't work at all, so Enrique is making 1.44 images instead. His net
connection blows so they've been a bit slow to appear. If you can do
better, please do so.
: Why hasn't a LINUX kernel file been included with the SLINK distribution to
: allow for installation with the loadlin.exe program without the file system
: errors the floppy version of the LINUX kernel file causes?
Uh, what errors?
: Has anyone noticed that the frozen SLINK distribution is _exactly_ the same
: as the proposed "new" potato distribution?
Duh; any future release will begin life as the current release. Since
most of the work is going towards frozen rather than unstable right now
I fail to see why this is such a shocker.
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