Distro Question

[Toby Fisher]

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, dashielljt wrote:

> Well if Slackware is chosen the only boot and root disks for it are
> slackware 8.0 with kernel version 2.2.19smp.  There's a kernel version
> 2.4.55 available in slackware 8.1 and I think another version of the
> kernel for slackware.current which will become slackware 9.0.  In the
> slackware installation instructions provided for speakup, if there is a
> way to make other kernel choices for installation and have them come up
> talking short of rebuilding a kernel they're undocumented.  Because 2.2.19
> was chosen as the kernel version on which to build and I had used it, I
> can't use my parallel tape backup unit with linux.  That should work with
> kernel 2.4.x and above though.  What slackware provides for ftape are only
> the stable driver which is ftape 3.x.  The thing is, that only works for
> internal tape drives and you have to compile ftape 4.x unstable driver to
> even get those parallel tape drives to work.  That's why the work on the
> sysback script.  Btw, it's promising but so far not finished.  Testing
> shows what I wrote as it'swritten now does work and it uses zip disks for
> backup.

Um, Slackware 8.0 comes with kernel 2.2.19, and also some kernels for
2.4.5, as well as both sets of sources.

Slackware 8.1, that I upgraded to today, has sources for 2.4.18.

Btw, there are instructions for upgrading from slackware 8.0 to 8.1, but
they are at best unstable, seriously not for newbies as there are just so
many things that can go wrong, and did for me.  Make sure, at all costs,
that you have a bootdisk around, I used one from sslackware 8.0 because if
it all went west I could use the root disk, and re-install from the cdrom.

Mind you, I did sort of bring things on myself, cos I didn't use a
Slackware cd, just mounted the iso image via loopback, very interesting,
but it did work.

Cheers.

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