For now, I think I will abandon attempts to build and use kernel-2.4.6. It
has been part of nothing but trouble for me and my desktop. First, I simply
cannot get 2.4.6 to build without problems (no other kernel has ever given me
such difficulties) - particularly problematic are ATM module problems. This
or that ATM module barfs and this brings down the entire build process to be
more trouble than it is worth.
Also, between trying to build kde 2.2 beta (with all its many many
dependencies) and kernel-2.4.6, I have had to reinstall MD 8.0 from scratch
twice in so many weeks. I left for work this morning with the install
process going on after my system was ROYALLY screwed over last night in
trying to build, fix, and install 2.4.6.
Word of warning to people...many key packages in Cooker this time around seem
to be particularly nasty vis a vis stability and workability when pasted into
a stable 8.0 system. Two weeks of trying to get kde 2.2 beta and kernel
2.4.6 to play nice on my desktop (in particular) and my laptop (to a lessor
extent) have so ruined my installation that I have had to resort to full
reinstalls, as indicated above. At least, with this latest crapout I was
able to take advantage of the situation and almost completely switch my linux
system over to ReiserFS.
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 05:11 am, Dennis Robertson wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 01:19:48PM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > I just built a 2.4.6 kernel from cooker. It appears to lack any support
> > for supermount. Doing "make xconfig" I find no entry anywhere for
> > enabling support for supermount. Building and installing it anyway
> > proves this lack to be true. I setup 3 drives to be supermount drives.
> > None work and I get messages about no support for supermount found.
> >
> > I have /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom2, /dev/sda4 (a parallel port zip) setup as
> > supermount. They no longer work because it appears that the new cooker
> > kernel doesn't offer supermount as an option. I have been through all
> > the menus in xconfig several times thinking that I must have missed it
> > but it just is not there.
>
> Same problem here. Kernel does not support supermount. Bummer!
