I got an unofficial snapshot .iso for Sarge, burned it to a CD and installed from the CD. The installaton was very basic, and I've been gradually and laboriously building it up by hand - this has been very educational and has taught me a great deal.
Now as I was considering recompiling the kernel to my own requirements, I find the following:- --------------- a. 'uname -a' shows:- Linux Leary..co.uk 2.4.21 #2 Tue Aug 26 14:43:43 BST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux b. an extract from '/boot' shows:- 518609 Sep 5 19:25 System.map-2.4.22-1-386 512 Oct 28 20:33 boot.0340 42220 Sep 5 11:54 config-2.4.22-1-386 3383296 Oct 28 20:32 initrd.img-2.4.22-1-386 825011 Sep 5 19:25 vmlinuz-2.4.22-1-386 c. messages when booting include:- Sun Nov 9 15:46:05 2003: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.21/modules.dep (No such file or directory) Sun Nov 9 15:46:06 2003: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.21/modules.dep (No such file or directory) d. '/lib/modules' is:- drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 28 20:32 2.4.22-1-386 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5883 Oct 28 20:32 modprobe.conf ------------- The kernel I selected for install was 2.4.22-1, so why does uname think it is 2.4.21? And, why is modprobe looking for modules for 2.4.21? I have done nothing to bring the above about - and didn't notice it before as I was concerned with other matters. Can anyone offer an explanation please. Regards, John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]