- Are my plans coherrent for Debian?
- Posted by Steve on March 6th, 2004
Hi;
I am an "advanced gnu/linux newbie".
I have been using knoppix for over a year installed to my hard drive.
I would like to try getting into regular debian.
I was thinking of trying the new Debian installer in combination with
CDs of Debian Test( I am on dial-up ), and kernel 2.6 ( I want alsa, and
acpi/apm to turn my machine off ).
Will this combination work?
Steve
- Posted by John Hasler on March 6th, 2004
Steve writes:
I suggest that you ask on the debian-user list about converting from
Knoppix. Go to www.debian.org to subscribe.
Understand that the installer is still experimental.
2.6 will work.
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- Posted by Steve on March 6th, 2004
Gerald Willmann wrote:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-i...er/News/2004/5
Better hard detection, fewer questions, friendlier......
- Posted by Styvaen on March 6th, 2004
Steve wrote:
Styvaen.
- Posted by Gerald Willmann on March 6th, 2004
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Steve wrote:
don't know what you mean by new installer but I just set-up a debian
testing box with 2.6 kernel and things work fine. Only issue I remember
was that certain testing CDs don't boot so I ended up burning a stable CD,
boot from that, then install stable over the net, and finally upgrade to
testing and 2.6. You could also do those steps from CD, of course, if you
only have dial-up. Good luck,
Gerald
PS don't forget about initrd in lilo.conf when you upgrade to 2.6
- Posted by andy on March 7th, 2004
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:43:06 +0100, Steve wrote:
The new installer is still being developed, and only works on some
machines. It didn't on mine (about 2 months ago). You can use alsa and
acpi with a 2.4 kernel if you want, but try 2.6 if you like.
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