Hello cr (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install > CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? > > Currently, I have the 2.4.18-k6 kernel installed on my hard drive, > but it doesn't seem to have ppp enabled (dmesg brings up no mention > of ppp). I'm a little surprised, I would've thought a kernel I > downloaded as a .deb off debian.org would have ppp enabled, but > still... > (did I do something wrong during the install, I wonder?) Check if the ppp support is built as modules. On my system (self compiled kernel with ppp support as modules), the following modules are loaded: sirius:/home/andreas# lsmod | grep ppp ppp_deflate 3008 1 (autoclean) zlib_inflate 18592 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] zlib_deflate 17984 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate] ppp_async 6624 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 17164 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4704 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] A quick search on <http://packages.debian.org> shows that your kernel package has the ppp_async.o module (I didn't check for the other ones). Try this to find out: cat /boot/config-2.4.18-k6 | grep PPP On my system, these drivers are loaded automatically. There is a file /etc/modutils/ppp with the following lines: alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic alias char-major-108 ppp_generic alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate Please check your /etc/modutils/ppp file and your /etc/modules.conf to make sure it also has these lines (if not, try to run update-modules). > If I want to reach the Internet I currently have to boot the > 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel off the world's slowest floppy boot disk ;) > > [...] > > Anyway, back to the CD-ROM, is there any way to use the kernel images > on that to just put a vmlinuz-xxx in /boot that I can call > with Grub, without going through the Install process again (because > last time I did that, I broke things :( > > Or do I need to do another 5MB download of a .deb from debian.org? First, you can use apt-get to install the package for the 2.4bf version. It is located on the fifth CD. Second, I wouldn't use it because the kernel images from the Woody r0 and r1 CDs have several security issues, so I would use an updated version from security.debian.org. Please note that the bf24 package still has the same name, the other updated 2.4 packages however have slightly different names. So if you want to update your current kernel package, you have to install kernel-image-2.4.18-1-k6. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
