New release ? When ? :-)

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: New release ? When ? :-)
started by: Key

Posted by Key on June 09 2007,16:59

I don't want to push, but as I know now, that there is currently no DSL, which is fully working on my new computer with SATA support and NVIDIA onboard network card support, I would like to know the current state on developing.
Will there be a new release candidate soon with a kernel update ?
Thank you in advance for this information.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 09 2007,18:39

reference: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....87;st=5 >

Posted by roberts on June 09 2007,22:08

Quote (Key @ June 09 2007,09:59)

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Will there be a new release candidate soon with a kernel update ?
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Yes. However I expect a longer than usual RC cycle, as I personally do not have all this fancy new computer stuff to test with. I will be counting on those in the community who can, to help create and test modules.

Posted by Key on June 10 2007,20:34

Quote (roberts @ June 09 2007,18:08)

Quote (Key @ June 09 2007,09:59)

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Will there be a new release candidate soon with a kernel update ?
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We will do so

Thanks

Posted by Key on June 15 2007,16:48

Looking each day for a new test version :-)
Don't want to wait so many further days in order to know if the new DSL version will run on my machine or not.

Is there another live-cd-distro with a newer 2.4.31+ kernel which I could test in the meantime ?
I would like to test, if my SATA drives and my onboard-network card will work with a newer 2.4.31+ kernel.

Is it possible to run the " Slackware " distro directly from CD or does this have to be installed first ?

Posted by mikshaw on June 15 2007,20:00

As thehatsrule had posted, DSL 2.1b has sata support. You might try that.

Slackware itself is not a live cd, by the Slax project created a liveCD based on Slackware
< http://www.slax.org/ >

Posted by Key on June 16 2007,06:09

Quote (mikshaw @ June 15 2007,16:00)

As thehatsrule had posted, DSL 2.1b has sata support. You might try that.

Finally I have found it now and know what you mean.

I was always looking at:
< http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall >
There it is mentioned that DSL 2.0 has the newer (2.4.31) kernel.

Seems to be a wrong or incomplete information.
I have found this 2.1b file now in one of the official DSL archive sites.

Will try it this afternoon. Thanks.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 16 2007,07:10

That is correct.
2.0 does have the 2.4.31 kernel, but does not have the sata modules boot option.
See the notes page for more details.

Posted by Key on June 16 2007,21:05

Tried DSL 2.1b now.
No success unfortunately.

The booting ends with the limited shell, doesn't matter if "dsl sata" is typed in or not as boot option.
The filesystem will not be found.

My harddisk and my DVD-Rom are both connected via SATA cables.

Just hope that the new DSL with kernel 2.4.34 will support everything.
Maybe I will try it also with Slax the next days, but their 2.4 kernel is only supported till version 28-pre4.

Posted by humpty on June 17 2007,21:28

you can get an ide to sata convertor for about US$5.

Posted by WDef on June 17 2007,23:20

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" Slackware " distro directly from CD

You want Slax = slackware livecd. It's quite good.

Posted by Key on June 18 2007,16:56

Well, the only thing I want is to have a working DSL on my new computer with SATA-DVD-Rom and SATA-harddisk support.

As I need DSL only on an USB-pen, I could install it via CD-Rom on my old computer and run it then from USB on my new computer.

Nevetheless, there is the problem with the nforce-onboard-networkcard. This is not supported with kernel 2.4.26. Therefore I wanted to try kernel 2.4.31 from the DSL 2.1b version.

I tried the newest Knoppix, but this has the 2.6.xx kernel.
In order to know if the next DSL release with kernel 2.4.34 will work with my new computer, I have checked for another distro with a newer 2.4.xx kernel. The only I found was slackware. Slax, the live-cd, only supports the kernel up to 2.4.28. I don't know if it is worth to try it (burn it to CD).

If it is only a question of some days, I will wait for the new DSL and hope that everything works well.
But who can tell if it is only a question of days or if it is a question of weeks or months till we have the first new release candidate?

Posted by roberts on June 19 2007,05:24

As I posted earlier, I am going to keep the DSL v3.x series going.

I am concurrently working on a major release for DSL.
It will have a 2.4.34 kernel, but also a new look with some core changes but with the same goal of 50MB.

It will likely be in the next few weeks. I expect a long release candidate cycle, as many modules will need to be built and tested in the core and in some extensions.

I will post the kernel development tarball so the community can help build and test modules for the equipment that they have.

Stay tuned.