Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
Aaron Solochek wrote: I simply go to ftp.kernel.org and download the latest kernel and compiling it. But someone will correct me if I'm wrong. In Debian GNU/Linux, U have a package called 'kernel-package' in /misc. Install this pack and start compiling UR kernels using 'make-kpkg'. This one important package simplifies many things and is must follow.. ragOO, VU2RGU. PGP Key 1024/1A747CB1 Fingerprint: 61 CD 0F 96 7A 94 4F F6 F0 42 1B 6D C0 A4 24 CF -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux
What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
As you all might have guessed, I am in the process of customizing and configuring my Debian 2.1 so that I can dump RH. Next step is to move up to the 2.2.x kernel. I wish to run 2.2.12. Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right now : # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://www.netgod.net/ x/ I suppose I will have to add an entry for the unstable area like : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
I simply go to ftp.kernel.org and download the latest kernel and compiling it. i.e. put the tarball in /usr/src/ and tar-zvzf it. Then go into /usr/src/linux/ and make menuconfig. the make dep; make clean; make bzlilo. There are many veriations on this, but I don't ever recall needing new packages. But someone will correct me if I'm wrong. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Salman Ahmed wrote: As you all might have guessed, I am in the process of customizing and configuring my Debian 2.1 so that I can dump RH. Next step is to move up to the 2.2.x kernel. I wish to run 2.2.12. Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right now : # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://www.netgod.net/ x/ I suppose I will have to add an entry for the unstable area like : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. Thanks. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
Salman Ahmed wrote: Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. the minimum requirements are included in the kernel source. Look in the Documentation/Changes file. Very straight forward. It even tells you the commands to issue to get version numbers. BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. You may run into problems here. Potato is based on libc6 2.1 and slink uses 2.0. you may have to grab the source and compile. I'm running slink, and upgraded necessary packages before potato went to 2.1. Maybe someone who has done this recently on slink could be more help here. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= dyer[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
Salman Ahmed wrote: As you all might have guessed, I am in the process of customizing and configuring my Debian 2.1 so that I can dump RH. Next step is to move up to the 2.2.x kernel. I wish to run 2.2.12. Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right now : # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://www.netgod.net/ x/ I suppose I will have to add an entry for the unstable area like : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. The biggest surprise is that glibc 2.1 is part of unstable so all packages you get from unstable will complain about it's absence if you don't install it. Of course you could just install it. But building all the new packages from unstable and then applying them will mitigate this issue. Debian does actually maintain a nice page on what to do about getting the 2.2.x kernels onto slink: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 Hope it helps. E
Re: What is required for Kernel 2.2.12 ?
On Sat, 1999-09-18 14:57:50 -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: Can someone tell me exactly what packages I will need to run the 2.2.x kernel ? I know that I will need some packages from unstable but that's ok. Here is what my /etc/apt/sources.lists looks like right now : # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://www.netgod.net/ x/ I suppose I will have to add an entry for the unstable area like : deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free BTW, on a somewhat related note what problems should I expect when I start mixing up packages from unstable ? I am doing this on my home system which is a standalone system. I use it for doing some development and to browse the WWW and read this list. I did this back in July (for 2.2.10) on a slink box, and took a rather minimal route. My /etc/apt/sources.list only contained two lines: deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free I made myself current with those sources using dselect, although apt-get would presumably have worked equally well. Note that neither unstable nor proposed-updates was necessary; netgod had taken care of the required netbase upgrade, to netbase_3.12-2_i386.deb. Compiling (using gcc-2.7.2.3) the ftp.kernel.org sources then ran fine, using the instructions in Linus's README file. After booting the 2.2.10 kernel, the following configuration problems needed attention: 1) you get harmless boot-time error messages using slink's /etc/init.d/network; the following minimal one avoids those error messages and works fine for me: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 IPADDR=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX BROADCAST=YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY GATEWAY=ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ.ZZZ ifconfig eth0 $IPADDR broadcast $BROADCAST route add default gw $GATEWAY metric 1 substituting appropriate values for the addresses, of course 2) in /etc/printcap, change lp1 to lp0 If memory serves correctly, that's all you need to do. Since then I've upgraded to 2.2.12, and added deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US without any problem. Hopefully this clarifies that you don't _need_ to upgrade to unstable to enjoy the 2.2 kernel, but you do need to make some very minor configuration file changes. If I've missed anything, I hope somebody will notice and add/correct words for a more accurate description. Keith
