Hello Jennifer! Jennifer wrote: > I used Debian 3.0 Woody CD set (7 of them) to install. And the > kernel version is 2.2.20. For I need to install Oracle9i on this > Debian, so I need to upgrade kernel to 2.4.xx I downloaded > "kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386_2.4.21-2_i386.deb" from Debian site. And
Be aware that this is a package from Sid / unstable. It won't mix well with your Woody, ie. it needs newer initrd-tools, newer modutils, newer libc6... As you just need kernel 2.4.xx why not simply doing apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386 or maybe choosing an optimized image? If you didn't set up apt you can download the file from one of the mirrors, but preferably use apt. > I copied this image file to /usr/src/ Then I cd to /usr/src I ran > the command " dpkg --install > kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386_2.4.21-2_i386.deb". The console told me > the following error message: > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version > 2.4.21-2-386). but you do not seem to have a mkinitrd command in the > path. This will break the installation. I am aborting now. Could not > find mkinitrd in path at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 165.dpkg: > error processing /usr/src/kernel-image....(--install) > > So I used command of "find / -name mkinitrd". And there is no > result. I also used "man mkinitrd", and it says no man entry for > mkinitrd. > > In this case, what should I do? Well, mkinitrd is in the aforementioned initrd-tools package. Using apt it can be installed automagically while installing the kernel-image. > Your advice will be highly appreciated. Thank you very much. Just for what it's worth, also take a look at the Debian Reference at http://qref.sourceforge.net/ HTH, Flo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
