Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 09:17:21 -0600
From: Gary
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 16:19:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Lenz Grimmer
I was curious as to the stability of the kernel 2.4 beta that comes with the SuSE 7 distro. I was too chicken to install it. Does anybody have it up and running? Is it save to use?
I would not recommend it - it is ancient. If you want to fiddle bleeding edge stuff, do yourself a favor and download the latest one available. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The ratchet wheel of politics is self-destructive greed.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:11:20 +0100
From: Cliff Sarginson
Hi,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Gary wrote:
I was curious as to the stability of the kernel 2.4 beta that comes with the SuSE 7 distro. I was too chicken to install it. Does anybody have it up and running? Is it save to use?
I would not recommend it - it is ancient. If you want to fiddle bleeding edge stuff, do yourself a favor and download the latest one available.
LenZ
Ok. Well the advice I gave you in my other post on this topic is probably still ok. But Lenz is of course correct, get the latest one (I should too !) Cliff
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 09:44:17 +0100
From: Jorn Verwey
From: Cliff Sarginson
Hello,
For some time now I get a copy of:
Re: [SLE] Kernel 2.4 In SuSE 7 by Cliff Sarginson
Mmm that may be my ISP's fault ! Their mail computer went beserk on me yesterday, I have a mailbox full of undeliverable messages (all the same message). If it is that I apologise to you on their behalf, and will send them a stiff reprimand.. Cliff
about every second AS LONG AS I click on the 'Get Msg' button. If I don't, I get one after it automatically executes the 'get-message' command. This has been true lately for a couple of other messages too (but by no means all). This is new behaviour and it suggests it has something to do with Netscape more than Suse (I'd expect some people to explain but nobody did, did they?). I'm running:
$> netscape -version Netscape 4.7/Export, 15-Sep-99; (c) 1995-1998 Netscape Communications Corp. as came with SuSE 6.3. I never had troubles with it before but lately it suprised me occasionally. Having a blank screen for a second. When I reply to a message (getting the address of the sender in the 'to' box), and then press quote, I -occasionally - get the content of another message (the one that followed it in the inbox). What should I do? Wait till it blows over/up?
Bye,
Jorn
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:09:27 +0100
From: Cliff Sarginson
Hello all, I was curious as to the stability of the kernel 2.4 beta that comes with the SuSE 7 distro. I was too chicken to install it. Does anybody have it up and running? Is it save to use?
I have been playing around with it in my spare time and it hasnt trashed anything yet :) I have had a couple of problems: I cannot get NFS to work. The 2.2.16 snd- drivers don't work under 2.4 -- but they probably need to be recompiled from somewhere. I havent looked into this too much. There is (yet another) ip filtering mechanism called Iptables, which from what I have read sounds just tickety-boo. However there appears to be no support yet for ipchains under iptables. I imagine there will be in the final release since it appears as an uncheckable option in xconfig. If it aint there an awful lot of systems will break ! The kernel is huge, but that is often the case I think with test kernels. Apart from that it seems to work ok. Be aware of a few things. You need to create a modules subdirectory for 2.4 modules. Depmod will create it's list from all the modules tou have under /lib/modules by default, so it will mix 2.2.16 and 2.4.0 ones up. This may cause a few complaints when you boot up, depending on what you use by way of configuration options. The kernel will expect to find the system map called System.map in /boot (or wherever). It doesnt need the Suse extension in the name. If you have a spare place you could do what I have done which is to create a seperate root file system specifically for 2.4 experimentation, and adjust lilo accordingly to boot the kernel with this root fs. This will give you a high confort factor if you are nervous of creating damage, and it means you can fiddle with anything in /etc and so on inside the test root fs instead of in your production one. If you want more specific information about what I did, re-post or mail me. Cliff
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 22:47:08 -0600
From: Gary
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