On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 04:01:01PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sun Feb 25 14:33:51 2001 brian moore wrote... > > > >On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > >> Let;s just cut to the chase on this. > >> > >> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under > >> Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this, > >> as it will be a production machine. > > > >You need many things from 'unstable' (though perhaps most of them are > >now in 'testing', I haven't looked). > > > >The biggies: > > a 2.4.x kernel > > glibc2.1 > > lots of little things like the current fileutils, etc > > Thanks for the quick reply. > > So, it looks like I have 2 choices here (remeber I have already > upgraded to > testing). > > 1. Cahnge ap-get sources to unstable, Take a deep breath, and do apt-get > opgrade. > > 2. Figure out how to get a 2.4 kerne built on "tetsting" > > 2b. Find someone who has /debs for 2.4 for "testing" > > If I do 1. will I get the 2.4 kernel?
Nope. > 2 Will require me to figure out how to build the Debian way, a kernel > for > which I do not hvae .debs, since the 2.4 kerenel is not offered as a > choice by > dselect. Just grab it from kernel.org like usual, and use 'make-kpkg' to make your own kernel debs. (I dislike precompiled kernels and all the fluff they have for hardware I have no interest in -- an no support for hardware I -am- interested in like my pjbox. :)) > So are you saying I could stay with ex2fs? Are you certain of this? Yes. [gimli:/doom/bem] 1:10:34pm 130 % dd if=/dev/zero of=FatFile bs=1M count=3000 3000+0 records in 3000+0 records out [gimli:/doom/bem] 1:14:49pm 131 % ls -l FatFile -rw------- 1 bem bem 3145728000 Feb 25 13:14 FatFile [gimli:/doom/bem] 1:14:59pm 132 % cat /proc/filesystems nodev sockfs nodev shm nodev pipefs nodev proc ext2 iso9660 nodev autofs nodev nfs nodev devpts nodev usbdevfs A nice fat 3G file of zeros.... and it's on e2fs. > >> How do I go about seting up a machine to do this? > > > >See above. It works fine on 'unstable', and probably works on 'testing' > >if you upgrade the kernel to 2.4. > > Got a pointer to how to compile a 2.4 kernel, the Debian wya, on > "testing"? Get kernel source from kernel.org, untar, cd linux, make (menu|x)?config, fakeroot make-kpkg --revision Custom.1 binary, dpkg -i ../kernel-image-whatever, reboot. :) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;