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.
Nah, I'd change sources.list, but then do apt-get install kernel-sources-2.4.x-y. Why risk bringing in cruft you don't need? And the kernel source seems pretty independent of any other. > > 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? > > 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. 1. make menuconfig to configure the kernel you're going to build. 2. make-kpkg buildpackage to create a deb with the kernel image and modules. 3. dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image.x-y.deb to install it all. 4. reboot 5. If shit don't work, goto 1. :-)
