Re: [Sheflug] RE: Gentus

[Matt Fairtlough <nospam [at] blueyonder.co.uk>]

Will Newton wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:
>
> >
> > You could probably upgrade the system to Red Hat or Mandrake if Gentus is a Red Hat compatible distro?
>
> Gentus IS RedHat. Basically they seem to have a done less than thorough
> s/RedHat/Abit all by myself Gentus Linux/g. Certainly with a bit of
> trickery I would expect RH7 to sit easily on top of it (maybe install a
> redhat-release-6.2-1.rpm from the net). Mandrake has diverged a bit from
> RH over the last few versions, and TBH I wouldn't feed it to my dog
> anyway.

Not quite.  There was an HPT370 controller driver on the Gentus distribution corresponding to RH6.2.  RH6.2
didn't work on my box at all, and I think it was because of the HPT.  Even now, I'm not sure tho'.  Baz is
helping me to upgrade to RH7 so I should find out soon.  From what I've heard of Mandrake it is the last
thing in the world I'd throw at my machine.  [Not wanting to start a flame war though!]

Matt.


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