Arjen Verweij wrote:
http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/module-init-tools/
Now you can try 2.6 with woody :) No need to upgrade to sarge if you don't want to.
OK, I'm going to give this a shot.
thanks for the info.
James
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, James wrote:
Hello,
I already have a portable(Prostar 8880 x86) running woody (stable) with several kernel options, the latest being 2.4.21.
If I want to upgrade to Sarge(testing) and a 2.6.x kernel, do I upgrade the kernel first, to a 2.6.x kernel and test it as another kernel option under lilo, with Woody first? Or do I upgrade the distro from stable to testing, first, and then work on a 2.6.x kernel upgrade/build?
I suspect that the main issue is going to be with module loading. Kernels previous to 2.6 used (as you probably know) the modutils program to handle module-loading. But 2.6 series kernels require a new program called module-init-tools. So you'll need to upgrade enough at least to get that (it's packaged for Debian). I don't think that's in stable; so you have to either upgrade to testing, or else use a backported package for stable.
So if I use 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade the distro to testing, first, then would the dist-upgrade take care of the modutils versus module-init-tools issues?
This seems to be the simplest method to upgrade from stable to testing on a portable. All I have to do is add these lines to my /etc/apt/sources.list file
<quote>
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
deb http://debian.rutgers.edu/ testing main contrib deb-src http://debian.rutgers.edu/ testing main contrib
deb ftp://debian.rutgers.edu/pub/ testing main contrib deb-src ftp://debian.rutgers.edu/pub/ testing main contrib <end/quote>
and then comment out the old lines, then issue 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
Note, I lifted these /etc/apt/sources.list file from a Sarge installation using Debian-Installer. Maybe somebody has a better source for the /etc/apt/sources.list entries?
Ideas and comments are most welcome....
James
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