Re: 7.1 is out soon

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 21:13:35 +0600 (LKT) Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>
spake unto us:

> On  Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Weston Rogers commented thusly,

> And please tell us what are the gripes you had with Debians potato, so
if
> they are justified I can report them to the relevant authorities?

Here's one: Potato and an earlier version (sorry I don't recall which but
it was a couple of years back) wouldn't work with my external SCSI cd
drive because it wouldn't recognize my AHA-1505 scsi card (aha152x.o) in
either instance. No scsi recognition at installation time, no
installation, no checky-checky. Tried several times in both instances.
Several times a failure. Haven't tried since and not sure I ever will
again.

BTW, also had trouble with Turbolinux 6.0 (booting after install would
stop about halfway through-something about rpmrc, though I don't recall
the specific error), Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1 wouldn't work with my video card
(S3 Virge/DX-supposedly supports it but would try to scramble the innards
of my monitor) and I didn't have months to take installing Slackware a
little at a time. Redhat distros have worked fine in all of these
instances. My only real problem here have to do with getting loop.o
compiled when compiling a new kernel(failing every attempt so far),
getting the module compiled for my D-Link NIC (rtl8139, though the 8390too
is supposed to work and hasn't-fixed this by switching to another NIC I
had on hand) and getting the insmod of my NIC modules to work (I can do a
workaround for this one). Turbolinux 4 installed & worked BTW, so it was
something they changed later.

Not sure if RH has anything to do with the loop.o, rtl8139 or 8930too
stuff. Still sorting those out. But, the point is, I can get installed,
configured and working no sweat. The others were headaches in this regard,
except Debian which never made it past the inital bootup of the
installation because it wouldn't cooperate.

I've spent my $.02 now, and will retreat from any further tit-for-tat
flaming in this never-ending discussion.

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