Re: Upgrading from 2.2.8 to 2.4.9 and upgrading in general

[Stephen W. <st...@co...>]

Hi Andreas

On 13-Jan-02, you wrote:



> Another issue is that it won't work with APUS precompiled kernel 2.2.10 AFAIR,
> because this kernel has not DOS partitioning scheme support compiled in it,
> and that's what SuSE does with your harddisk, it will install a DOS partition
> table. You have to use 2.4.9 I think. Just copy the ramdisk.image.gz (I think
> it's called like this on the CD's, I don't remember if I renamed it after
> copying, but you can determine it easy by looking for a file in the size of
> about 610008 bytes [version 7.1]
> on the CD's, somewhere in a install directory) from the SuSE CD set (I can't
> remember if it has been on CD no. 1, but I guess it was) to your Amiga disk
> where you have bootstrap and the start script. If you have problems
> determining the ramdisk.image file I could also send it to you if you wish
> that (although I don't know about copyright issues, and only version 7.1).

How did you get around the problem of the RamDisk probing irq settings, as when
I tried installing SuSE the installation hung at this point and would not move
on.

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Stephen Webber

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