Re: upgrading from Potato to Woody, was Glib Question
On Monday 01 July 2002 11:00 am, Elaine Tsiang wrote:
> I am new to Debian. Just succeeded in getting up one Potato, with help from
> this list.
>
> I have been running a RH7.2 with a RH6.2 on the same subnet. I have turned
> the RH6.2 into a Potato. I just found out that a 2.2 Linux serving a 2.4
> Linux NSF in Debian has problems - and I haven't found an answer yet. Other
> things like USB mass storage, wireless stuff also live in 2.4.
>
> Why I installed Potato instead of Woody is so much water under the bridge -
> being a newbie, I wanted to make sure I reach stability on all previous
> functions, relying on the assumption that any problem I encounter is not
> due to some bug in Debian. Those functions are far from exotic. The Potato
> is just a small web server now. So I wonder whether I should upgrade to
> Woody now, after having just gotten Potato running, instead of tryinig to
> solve the 2.2-2.4 compatability problem(s)? The eventual goal is to turn
> the RH7.2 into a Woody also, but one potato at a time. Any known
> RH7.2/Woody
> incompatibility issues?
>
> And does anybody recommend just upgrading the kernel to 2.4 (deprecated by
> Debian) instead of going to Woody?
>
> What's the cost of one Woody, after having paid one uneaten dinner and one
> sleepless night over one Potato?
>
check debian.org for a patch that will let you run a 2.4 kernel on potato.
alternatively, just upgrade the potato box to woody; although you might want
to be sure that you're not that the reason behind woody not yet being
released isn't an issue for you.
ben
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