On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:04:02PM -0700, Dmitriy wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:08:27PM +1200, David McNab wrote:
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction for enabling Debian
> > to work with large files.
> > Can I do it without having to recompile the kernel or recompiling glibc
> > progs?
> >
> > I tried 'apt-cache search large files support', and 'apt-cache search
> > lfs', but nothing meaningful came up.
>
> I'm not really an expert on this topic,
> but I heard that you need 2.4 kernel, and glibc compiled against 2.4
> headers.
Correct.
After installing the 2.4 kernel do an apt-get -b source glibc in a work
directory and then install what's spewed out. :)
You'll then need to recompile any utils you want to work with LFS against
the new glibc.
> So looks like you are SOL :-(
Not really. Just in a bit of pain. :)
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