s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from John Graves: > > At 01:56 PM 5/17/2004 -0500, you wrote: > > > Use Windows or Knoppix to download the kernel image file and any > > >associated dependencies (painfully tedious) from www.debian.org/Debian > > >Packages. You'll want a kernel image file that matches your requirements, > > >like "kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686", etc. Then install them with something > > >like "dpkg -i *deb". > > > > I am a raw beginner in a lot of this. so please accept my questions for > > what they are. This is a server but it is not live. It sits on my test > > bench so I can start to learn what is needed in this environment. I do > > have a partition with Winserver in it but can blow away anything else.
If networking is up with knoppix then you can use it to download the rest of the bits that you need. Here is one way. But down below I show a wget which may be harder but simpler to describe. So read both and do one of them. mkdir -p /mnt/target mount /dev/whatever /mnt/target chroot /mnt/target /bin/bash echo deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody-proposed-updates main non-free contrib >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install -d --print-uris -qq kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686-smp Will return something like this: 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.24-i386/kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686-smp_2.4.24-2woody.1_i386.deb' kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686-smp_2.4.24-2woody.1_i386.deb 11176288 1be9f9a920ddf7edab15a408f036805f Turn that into a downloadable path with a few shell commands. apt-get install -d --print-uris -qq kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686-smp \ | awk '{print$1}' | xargs -l wget That effectively downloads the kernel to the new machine in a chroot area. The advantage of this method is that it pulls down all of the dependencies that are needed in the case that more than one is needed. It is harder if there is only one thing to do. But easier if there are many things that need to get downloaded. Then reboot to the new machine. Install the .debs that are downloaded. dpkg -i *.deb The reason I don't go ahead and install them under knoppix is that the ide-scsi module which knoppix currently loads interferes with writing the MBR by lilo. I have not figured out how to avoid knoppix loading that module. Anyone have an answer for that? So better to avoid that step and do it under the native machine to avoid that problem. Of course you can install everything under knoppix and just say 'no' to the lilo step from the kernel postinstall script. Then reboot and run 'lilo -v' manually later. That would of course be fine too. Many ways to get to the same place. [To the grub advocates, since we are bootstrapping from woody grub is not installed yet and running grub-install has the same problem.] > > I can't seem to find what/where I need to upgrade the kernal I > > have (2.2.0) to 2.4.whatever. Where do I find the kernel image > > file, and the modules needed to support my network card (e1000)? > > i) "apt-cache show kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686" says: > > Filename: > pool/updates/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-i386/kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686_2.4.18-13.1_i386.deb > > You might try http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ to get at that. > There's probably better ways, but that's a start. > > ii) Sorry, I've no experience with e1000 nics. See lists.debian.org > and flip through the debian-users archive. For the e1000 you will need 2.4.19 or later. Or add the module yourself to 2.4.18 but moving to a newer kernel is probably a better answer. In which case I would use 2.4.24 from proposed updates. It is from Herbert Xu and so should be as good as any Debian kernel. wget http://http.us.debian.org/pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.24-i386/kernel-image-2.4.24-2-686-smp_2.4.24-2woody.1_i386.deb I believe that should install on woody without needing anything other dependencies to be filled. So should be good. But if you find you need another package consider the more complicated process that I described above. That is a tuned kernel for 686 and most things are compiled as modules. So to get the e1000 driver installed make sure you have 'e1000' in /etc/modules. modprobe i1000 echo e1000 >> /etc/modules /etc/init.d/networking restart Check /etc/network/interfaces in the case of problems. Bob
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