On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 07:09:07AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Moe wrote:

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Hi all,

I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+.

That cracks me up. Isn't there a Debian list???

Greg

Don't bust his tender parts too hard. Debian-Users is even higher-traffic than we are, and I don't necessarily blame him for trying to ask here. One of the best things about SLE is that we are comprised of a very BROAD cross-section of the industry; everything from the greenest of the newbies to UNIX admins of 20+ years experience. Just on a side note; I haven't *used* SuSE for about two months; I'm almost 100% Debian :? -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 10:10:54AM -0500, Michael H. Collins wrote:

And there is a good reason why it is so high traffic. Once you get a basic install then you have to start building a "usable" system pretty much from scratch. My choice before Debian is Tomsrtbt. Both installs leave one in about the same place.. <grin>

Does Atipa load Debian? If so I feel sorry for the guys that have to make a worthwile system out of it.

I'll address that :). Debian Slink's (2.1) installer sucks. That's all there is to it. Once you've done it five or six times, you finally become comfortable with the madness. From there, it is reasonably simple though; use the installer to get a base system (~28mb), and then make sure it runs before you do anything else. After it reboots and your system runs, using apt-get to install anything else you need is a SNAP. apt-get checks all of your dependencies for you, and asks for your approval before retrieving multiple packages. It's a damn shame that nobody else (in the distro field) can implement a package tool of the same caliber; this simply isn't possible for RPM based distros. Debian also has arguably the smoothest upgrade path of any of the big six (no offense, SuSE folks ;). I don't mean to start another distribution Jihad; this is only the opinion I've developed with nearly 5 years of Linux use and administration under my belt. As for Atipa's policy, Red Hat is the default, with SuSE being available as an option. We will, of course, install any other distro you request, but that may or may not open you up as a customer to higher labor charges. If you want more information than that, I'd advise you email sales@atipa.com ;). -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

While it does belong to a Debian list, it'll help if you look for LILO problems (or, what's 'Silo'?). Check out man Lilo -- Ed Craig epcraig@efn.org Taxi Linux FreeBSD Think this through with me, let me know your mind... Hunter/Garcia On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Warrl wrote:

Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:27:38 -0700 From: Warrl To: Moe , suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] debian question

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Moe wrote:

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Hi all,

I installed Debian 2.1r4 on my sparc 1+. The installation is fine but I cant boot off the hdd, instead I boot of the cdrom then issue "boot: linux root=/dev/sda1" then I am able to boot ok. Any ideas? I think that 'silo' is not configured correctly because I cant boot off the hdd.

One idea would be to ask on a Debian support list, rather than a SuSE support list...

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