Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato
The fact that the commands are different, for example bitchx instead of
BitchX and everything I foudn was out of date.
voy1d
Faith No More summed up life well,
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
----- Original Message -----
From: Phillip Deackes <gsmh@gmx.net>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Upgrading Storm (slink) to Potato
> "voy1d" <voy1d@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> > I was using Storm for a while, and I just got so pissed off with the
> > fact
> > the packages were all wrong that I gave up and went back to Debian.
> > But
> > yeah, they don't really look after the updates etc, so I wouldn't
> > bother
> > with it.
>
> Huh? Which packages are all wrong? The current version of Storm is Slink
> with a few extra value-added packages like the Storm Package Manager, a
> front-end to apt. I installed Storm and have upgraded all the way to
> Woody without any problems. Storm uses a slightly customised kernel
> which gives frame-buffer support and provides the graphical boot screen,
> and a slightly customised lilo to give the graphical boot-manager
> screen. You are not forced to use these, and indeed as soon as you
> upgrade you lose both features unless you use a new Storm-patched kernel
> and put Storm's lilo on hold.
>
> So, you can upgrade your Storm installation exactly as if were plain
> Debian, without any problems, and can, if you wish, retain any Storm
> features along the way. I really don't see why you have a problem.
> Perhaps you could explain more.
>
>
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> Phillip Deackes
> Using Storm Linux 2000
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