[Herts] More on Newbie Boot Hassle

Tue Feb 4 17:07:01 2003

Hi Steve,

What do u mean when u said u had to keep on flying to US for upgrades? cant 
you do the upgrade of SuSe from UK i mean from internet or thro a cd?

Thanx
Tauseef

>From: Stephen Birch <steve_debian@ironmountainsystems.com>
>Reply-To: herts@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: herts@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Herts] More on Newbie Boot Hassle
>Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:42:04 +0000
>
>I missed the start of this discussion. What type of machine are you 
>bringing
>up? I just brought up a Dell 650 under debian, but I had to build a special
>kernel based on the 2.4.20 kernel because the aacraid driver did not have
>Dell support yet. I had to patch the kernel using the patch Dell has
>submitted to Alan Cox for inclusion in 2.4.21.
>
>I got it to work and am now fully installed, but it sure wasn't the easiest
>install I have ever done.
>
>BTW I love SuSE but got fed up of always having to reinstall the latest 
>rev.
>It doesn't make sence that you can't simply upgrade over trhe net. I kept
>having to fly to the USA to upgrade machines I maintain over there. With
>debian, I do a network upgrade to each release from the UK. Get to see more
>of my wife :-)
>
>The install is a little harder with Debian, but you only have to do it 
>once!
>
>Steve
>
>
>On Monday 03 February 2003 17:37, Geoff Pitt wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Thanks for your comments so far.  I've done some more research and come 
>up
> > with some answers.
> >
> > The RAID set-up is controlled by a Promise PDC20276 chip (on my Gigabyte
> > GA-7VAXP MOBO) and their FastTrak133 software.
> >
> > I've found an entry on the SuSE support FAQ's giving details of a patch
> > from promise for 8.0 - I've downloaded it and tried to install it to no
> > avail.
> >
> > Have been in contact with Promise support who helpfully say they're 
>working
> > on a patch for 8.1 (and Redhat 8 ) but can't give a release date yet.
> >
> > Making a boot floppy in YaST2 results in the same errors as writing LILO 
>to
> > the boot sector.  I guess I could try ditching win98 and installing SuSE 
>on
> > it's own but am worried I'll be without some important hardware (canon
> > printer, WLAN etc) for some time until I can find the right drivers etc.
> >
> > Hope to meet some of you on Wednesday.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Geoff
> >
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