Michael-John Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 07:53:12PM +0200 Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > The bootdisk will copy the 2.2 kernel and if you downgrade the kernel > > a lot will break. You won´t have swap and you won´t even be able to > > mount any ext2 partition. Even if you get the linux to ever boot with > > a 2.0 kernel several basic tools will fail. > > True. The problem is that (AFAIK) 2.0.xx will still ship with potato, > along with various 2.2 kernels. A person could, after installation, > install a 2.0 kernel and to accomodate this, it would be nice if > during the installation they were given the option of creating 2.0 or > 2.2-compatible filesystems/swap areas.
I agree that this would be desirable. > > If you want a 2.0 kernel, you need slink. Potato just won´t work, so > > we should not care too much about such problems. A note somewhere > > should be fine. > > But if we're shipping 2.0 as part of the distro, we should try and > accomodate it as much as possible (within limits of course). If 2.0 > is being dropped for potato, my whole argument falls away of course > and I'll go and sit in the corner and keep quiet :) The issue of whether or not we strive for both 2.0 and 2.2 linux kernel compatability in general is a potato release manager / leader issue, not an issue for this list. I personally think that we should strive to be as agnostic as possible about what kernel the user is running, within reasonable limits. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
