"Crappy Cow" (Re: [Novalug] Ubuntu problems (2))

[Angelo Bertolli]

Kevin Dwyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:05PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>   
>> Roger W. Broseus wrote:
>>     
>>> Bonnie:
>>>
>>> I futzed around with trying to "upgrade" to "Fawn" for a long time last
>>> night - on my laptop - and finally gave up and started from scratch -
>>> keeping stuff on /home on a backup drive - and repartioning! I do keep a
>>> separate /home for just the situation you encountered.
>>>  
>>>       
>> Well you guys have convinced me to stick with Debian ;)  No problems 
>> upgrading from sarge to etch.
>>     
>
> I had no problems upgrading Ubuntu.
>
> My Debian box is essentially stuck on etch now since it looks like
> support for the 2.4 kernel is going away.  (Judging by the fact that I
> can't upgrade in unstable anymore.)  I'm stuck with 2.4 until I rebuild
> it since the old Debian installer let me use the onboard RAID without
> devicemapper.  I don't see a way to get to 2.6 without redoing the
> filesystem.

Just an idea:  can you test out a 2.6 system with a live CD and see if 
you can get it to use your current RAID system?

Angelo