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Jonathan Kitchin wrote:
> 
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> glenn it appears i misread the labels on the 2 floppies for Debian
> closer inspection reveals 1.3 1   and 1.3 2
> so it is a two cdrom set for 1.3 and this would appear out of date
> as 1.3.1 has XF86 3.3 and this is not in 1.3

You could install 1.3 and run ftp upgrade: a matter of pointing 
"dselect" to nearest debian mirror, selecting packages you want
and choosing "Install".  That's how it's supposed to work, anyway
-- you get the base distribution on CD and do upgrades via ftp.

> anyway my slackware96 is running OK in spite of all the 'unresolved
> symbols' in the module library. i read a bit about fixing this but
> i cannot understand what the man wrote. ah well!!

You get unresolved symbols after you rebuilt your kernel and forgot to 
rebuild the modules -- usually.  It could also mean that you forgot
to run `depmod -a` in /lib/modules.  Or something.

> he said to alter my /etc/modules.conf with this line:
> alias block-major-whatever 10 off

That's if you get a message "loading of block-major-whatever 10 
failed: no such device or address" or something like that.  It means
you're trying to load a module for non-existing hardware.
(Aside: what's block-major 10 anyway?)

> and then to upgrade my modutils
> can anyone understand what this means??

It means if you get the message like above, tell kerneld not to
load modules for hardware you don't have.  Upgrading modutils
may be a good idea regardless (errm, maybe not, considering that
it's Slackware.)

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