Re: [K12OSN] 3.1.2 vs 4.0 beta9 adventure

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Eric Harrison wrote:
>> There has been very little testing as well,  I'm half-way through
>> the first attempt to upgrade from v3.1.2 to v4.0beta9. Who knows
>> what bugs that will shake out.
>Adventure is our common middle name, n'est ce pas?
>	updated 3.1.2 to 4.0beta9. forgot to add apt repository for beta,
>run apt-get dist-upgrade, got *older* kernel, added repository, run
>apt-get dist-upgrade, complaint about signatures, being adventurous,
>disable signature checking, run dist-upgrade again, rpm database went
>kaput. stopped there. the laptop works fine and even my reversed eth0 /
>eth1 assignments are preserved. the terminals boot and all the big apps
>work fine, so i think the update procedure works just fine, and maybe i'll
>even run the rpm database fix ;-)

My test update went fine as well. It didn't magically fix all the 
things I still need to fix, such as the apt repositories, but it
didn't spew errors and eat my harddrive ;-).

>thank you Eric. julius
>
>p.s. i just wish that RH / Fedora would make ACPI enabled kernels the
>default, so i might get the built-in wireless working in the laptop.

ACPI is there, it is just disabled by default. Add the "acpi=on" 
option to /etc/grub.conf, reboot, and enjoy.

-Eric