[wellylug] Sarge approaching release

[Jamie Baddeley]

On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 16:49, jumbophut wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 19:51:58 -0700, Ian Sterling wrote:
> > 
> > The last install I did - stable - from a recent iso put on 2.2 and
> > made my laptop unhappy.  The first thing I did was dist-upgrade to
> > testing and tried to put a 2.4 on.  It was still very unhappy.  So I
> > put FC2 on it (slow) and replaced that with current Gentoo.  It's
> > okay, not nearly as happy as I'd like it, but happier than others. :)
> > 
> 
> That was a Woody iso.  You can select a 2.4 kernel at install-time by
> typing bf24 at the lilo stage.  Alternatively, install using a 2.2
> kernel, then install a 2.4 kernel using apt.  No need for a
> dist-upgrade
Some good advice tony, one particular thing is that booting into bf24
option will give you ext3 fs option from the start rather than have to
faff around with changing it after the fact, which can be a PITA.

> .  If you couldn't get the 2.4 option at install using
> bf24, you had a broken iso. (or issue 3.0 rather than 3.0r1?)

> 
> As for Sarge, it will default to 2.4, and give you the option of 2.6.
> 
> But hey, use what you like.  That's the beauty of open-source.
Indeed.
> 
> -- 
> Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')
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