Jule, updating your kernel is a very simple matter with the tools you have at hand. You may certainly reinstall Woody from the b2.4 floppies if you like or give miniwoody a try. Miniwoody is a CD ISO which uses the bf2.4 floppies as a boot medium (kind of, it's still a CD) and then does most of the install via CD, just going to the net to get "optional" stuff. The miniwoody distribution can be found at:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/bonzai/ I think the easiest method would have to be using apt-get to install a new kernel though. You will have to do this as root. In my case, I run an athlon machine so I would type the following: apt-get install kernel-image-2-4.18-k7 If you are running a Celeron or pentium X or a different AMD then the last spec (k7) will change. Here are the other varieties available: 386 - kernel-image-2.4.18-386 pentium classic - kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV - kernel-image-2.4.18-686 PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV SMP - kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp AMD K6/K6-II/K6-III - kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 Unless you want to get kernel source and compile, the latest version you can get from debian (easily) is 2.4.18. You can certainly try changing you apt sources.list but that can be very tricky. The 2.4.18 kernel should meet your needs. Having said that, sooner or later you will get the kernel source and start hacking, everyone does... };-) Generally, the kernel used by default is the one for the 386, very generic and not optimized for you CPU. Then again, very safe. So, anyway, after a few minutes you should have a newly installed kernel image. Now, be careful, your existing lilo.conf file probably does not have support for a "init.rd" (initial RAM disk). Debconf will tell you this and will tell you how to edit your lilo.conf to make sure your new kernel is going to work. PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION HERE! you are making changes to lilo, be careful. With a new kernel in place I think you will have better luck with your IPTABLES (now) question. I haven't used IPCHAINS for about a year and half and as such I can no longer help you as I just don't remember anymore. This should help to get you going. John On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 06:14, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm running 2.2.20 which came with Debian 3.0r1. > I just find it strange, because every HOWTO i read tells me it's easy to do, > and here's i'm trying to figure it out for 4 days. > I don't really know what's wrong maybe i should switch to a distribution that > runs 2.4.x by default, and use iptables, anybody know of any? Does Sid run > 2.4.x off the bat? > > Jule > > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 01:25, Tarragon Allen wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 12:39, Jule Slootbeek wrote: > > > i cannot get the client to connect to anything farther than the server. > > > any/more help would be appreciated > > > > > > Jule > > > > > > ps. my ipchain rules are (gathered from the previous emails) > > > > > > -P forward DENY > > > -A forward -i eth0 -j MASQ > > > > What version of the kernel are you using? > > > > From memory, ipchains requires an additional package to be installed to > > allow masquerading to work (at least it did under RedHat). If you're using > > a 2.4 series kernel, you really should be using iptables (aka netfilter). > > I'm not sure the ipchains backwards compatability in netfilter handles > > masquerading.. > > > > t > > -- > > GPG: http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key > > - -- > Jule Slootbeek > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 617 901 6958 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+8FepQkskRvXpytsRAj4xAKCDd9bkY49NNNdEPoGb44QKWzP4nACeLkRV > s6254DHPPRzcVWc3jIW+q8E= > =OdwC > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
