Re: Upgrading from 2.2.8 to 2.4.9 and upgrading in general

[Andreas <an...@po...>]

Hi Adam

> I apologize for the html messages.  It's not always obvious when using html
> since the difference is subtle in Outlook Express.

...

> Anyway, I've
> successfully been able to install using the LinuxPPC 2000 installer and
> figured out a couple of other things along the way as well.  The first thing
> was that the CD's I have are LinuxPPC 2000 Q3.  I think some of my problems
> may have been heat related.  I had added some harddrives to my machine and
> the circulation around my CSPPC wasn't what it should have been.

Please also think about contact problems, especially regarding the SIMMS on the
CSPPC, if you are experiencing random crashes. As it looks, we have quite a similar
configuration with several harddrives and cd-roms. Have you ever thought about
purchasing those special harddisk coolers with two fans, which supply the
harddrives with cool air out of the 5 1/4" slots? They are quite useful, earlier
my tower has always been very hot around the drives, nowadays they stay cool.

How does your system behave under AmigaOS?

> One of the
> problems that I was having with the LinuxPPC 2000 installer is that /dev/ram
> was getting full and prevented mounting the freshly formatted harddrive.  I
> suspect the hard drive has quite a few bad sectors and the logfile was large
> enough to cause this.

Hmm, don't know about this. Did you do bad sector checking during
installation? Maybe you switch this one of. Hmm, I thought bad sector checking
would only be useful with older disk, which haven't their own bad sector
management, or am I wrong with this?

Are you using a whole harddisk for Linux?

> Based on your email, I've just tried the YDL 2.1 distribution with no luck
> since it tries to mount /proc/usb and fails and a message comes back that "I
> can't recover from this."  This is with the 2.4.9 kernel.  Although I did
> learn how to adjust the ramdisk size by using ramdisk_size = 16384.  If it
> were easy I guess it wouldn't be any fun, eh?

Hmm, once had a YDL kind of distro on my machine, but it was a selfmade
mixture between LinuxPPC and YDL, and it was quite a long ago.. Don't even
remember if it was a fresh install or an update..

PS: Sorry for the desinformation concerning SuSE Linux 7.2, I of
course meant 7.1

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Kind regards,
Andi