[Quantian-general] Kernel 2.6.15

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

João,

On 4 February 2006 at 21:39, João Esteves wrote:
| Because I'm a Physicist, I would like to try Quantian, but there is a 
| hardware problem. I have a via vt6410 raid controller which is not fully 
| recognized by the kernels up to 2.6.15. This makes impossible to install 
| Linux in the Pata Hdd that is connected to it. There is an alternative, 
| which is to format the Sata Hdd, install Quantian and upgrade to the new 
| official kernel, but I would like to pass this option for the moment, since 
| I've already did this severall times with various Linux distros.

But you still boot Quantian from DVD to try it. 

Or use your existing setup with your working kernel and try Quantian via the
(free as in beer and speech) qemu emulator or the (free as in beer but not
speech) vmware player -- that way Quantian becomes simply yet another running
application.

| I would like to know if your planning to produce a newer version of Quantian 
| with the 2.6.15 kernel in the near future.

I hadn't planned it -- lack of time. So 'normally' with would happen only as
a side-effect of upgrading to Knoppix 4.1 if and when that version is
released some time this spring _and_ I find time to apply all the Quantian
changes.

Now, as this Open Source, if you could provide me with both a kernel 2.6.15
package I could drop in --- as well as the 2.6.15 versions of the thirteen
module packages currently built for 2.6.12 then we would be able to offer an
alternative.

It sounds like a lot of work either work.  Maybe you just want to try a
different computer?

| Thanks and greetings from Portugal.

Greetings from Chicago,  Dirk

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