[geeks] Woody was: UltraLinux (was: [rescue] web server loadbalancing...)

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I've moved this over to the geeks list since it's way out of sun=20
territory now.

I've got that little 8meg 486/100 laptop, and it runs fine on 2.2.19.=20

Leaving aside the "fact" that woody (and potato) can't install on the=20
7meg of available ram (I did it anyway, with potato)

Will woody with 2.4 work okay? Is it worth upgrading? I haven't honestly=
=20
played with the 2.4 kernel yet- how is the size comparing to the older=20
kernels?

-Christof


> Note that you *will* want to run the "woody"
> testing distribution--it's more stable than
> most RedHat release versions, though...and
> DaveM also recommends the 2.4.7 kernel (which
> is available as a precompiled and tested
> Debian package for sun4u and sun4u-smp,
> with DaveM's latest Ultra patches already
> included.)  The best way to get to woody, though,
> is to install stable "potato" first and then
> upgrade--which worked seamlessly when I recently
> did it.

>