On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:42:20PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> - Debian 3.0 doesn't support much of the hardware curently available -
> the old 2.4.18 kernel on the boot floppies doesn't even boot on many
> new computers (some Promise IDE chipsets require a more recent 2.4
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> kernel), and much hardware from nearly all currently abailable
^^^^^^This is false. All the promise IDE chipsets are adequetely supported by 2.4.18, albeit not in anything above ata-33 mode. The only problem is that autodetection fails for some of the newer ones, and you have to manually specify the controller ports. > My impression is that many Debian developers don't use a Debian 3.0 > (without backports), and that they therefore don't know how outdated it > is. I've no idea how you acquired this impression. I'd say quite the opposite, on all points. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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