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Re: Debian to be too late released



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"Martin Waller" <polytope_@hotmail.com> writes:

> Yes - I'm trying to persuade some people here at my work place to
> switch to Debian from RedHat as they 'discover' linux, but they're
> put off by the lack of a stable 2.2.x debian release, especially as
> they want to do some SMP work.  OK - upgrade slink to 2.2.x, but
> then there's more faffing about getting dchcpcd to work properly
> again so that these can sit happily on our MS driven network.

Why not just:

# echo "deb http://http.us.debian.org/ potato main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install dhcpcd kernel-image-2.2.10
# perl -npi~ -e '!m/ potato /' /etc/apt/sources.list

This will give you the minimum number of packages from the Potato
distribution that will let you run dhcpcd and the 2.2 kernel.
- -- 
Sam Vilain, sam@whoever.com
http://www.hydro.gen.nz/~sam/
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