Re: kernel question

2004-02-06 Thread Sam Halliday
Adam Aube wrote: > On Friday 06 February 2004 04:23 am, David Baron wrote: > > The new kernel image would not boot up because of "missing" modules.dep > > references. Does one need to build the whole thing or is there a way to > > simply use the newer kernel with the modules that are already on the

Re: kernel question

2004-02-06 Thread Adam Aube
On Friday 06 February 2004 04:23 am, David Baron wrote: > The new kernel image would not boot up because of "missing" modules.dep > references. Does one need to build the whole thing or is there a way to > simply use the newer kernel with the modules that are already on the > system? Try running "

Re: kernel question

2004-02-06 Thread David Baron
On Friday 06 February 2004 08:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You can boot to a console and use "apt-get install kernel-image" to see a > list of available kernel images (with versions). Pick a newer kernel from > the list and install that. I tried that. The new kernel image would not boot up beca

Re: kernel question

2004-02-05 Thread Adam Aube
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:44 pm, Matt Richardson wrote: > Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer > for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian > system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the > bf24 install, but it

Re: kernel question

2004-02-05 Thread Johann Koenig
On Thursday February 5 at 02:44pm Matt Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to ask such a silly question, but I haven't found a good answer > for it on google. I've got a Dell GX115 box running a basic Debian > system from the 3.0r2 installation cds, with kernel 2.2. I tried the > bf24

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will likely break. I

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Charles" == Charles Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian Charles> packages. I've been told it's usually NOT a good idea to Charles> take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it won't Charles> contain the customizations

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 20:49, Scott Henson wrote: > You need to dist-upgrade to woody if you want a 2.4.x kernel. Wrong. See other post in thread Also > cooking your own kernel from kernel.org sources work just fine. There > shouldn't be anything wrong with it. You need new modutils and pos

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 19:52, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Charles Parker quotation: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because > it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and > things will likely break. Not t

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Rich Puhek quotation: > I don't believe Debian "customizes" the kernel at all. There are > pre-compiled versions available with different options set (see things > like "kernel-image-2.2.19-compact" and "kernel-image-2.2.19-ide" There are also usually some extra patches applied, which I p

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Charles Parker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because > it won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and > things will likely break. This is usually the case with DeadRat, but

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 13:52, Charles Parker wrote: > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will like

Re: Kernel question

2002-03-08 Thread Rich Puhek
Charles Parker wrote: > > I don't see a 2.4 kernel in the stable Debian packages. I've been told it's > usually NOT a good idea to take a kernel directly from kernel.org because it > won't contain the customizations provided by your distribution, and things > will likely break. I've also been told

Re: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Albrecht Frank
"JACKSON, DEAN" wrote: > > Help my hard drive has sustained very large physical damage. it boots sort > of. as I use a multi processor system I would like to keep my kernel (it was > a pain to configure) > what is the best way of backing up my kernel? and restoring it! > > Dean Jackson > TeleWare

RE: kernel question

2001-03-27 Thread Joris Lambrecht
This WON't be easy if you're systemdisk is really damaged. It's pretty hard to explain this in an email because of the variety of conditions, let us know if you're getting somewhere or feeling rather lost. Did you allready boot into single user mode and run efsck2 ? Maybe you're just experiencing

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:22:06 +0300, Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > In my experience, it is. The laptop I'm using has a 2.4.0-test3 > kernel and the machine at home, Where did you get a "2.4.0-test3" kernel? The last one I saw was test2.. There was also a "test2-ac22", in Alan's

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread James Green
Walter Williams wrote: > > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever web sit

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Werner
Walter Williams wrote: > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever web site

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Walter Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball or a patch > file from what ever we

Re: Kernel question

2000-07-06 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:14:13PM -0600, Walter Williams wrote: > Greetings > > I have subscribed to this list server to find > out more about non-Red Hat derivatives. > Is the Debian distribution of the type that I > can, when I want to update the kernel, > download a complete kernel tar ball

Re: kernel question

2000-01-07 Thread Brad
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 06:57:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 5 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "kernel question" > > I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. > > Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a > > regular kernel source tarbal

Re: kernel question

2000-01-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "Re: kernel question" >> >> Basically anything with a letter will be fine, something like >> pollywog.1. Use dpkg to check it if you are not sure. >> >>#dpkg --compare-versions 2.2.14-1 ge pollywog.1 ; echo $? >

Re: kernel question

2000-01-06 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Jan-2000 Brian Servis wrote: > Just do it! Just use make-kpkg with a revision name that will be > greater than 2.2.14-1(this will be the version number of the > kernel-image once it is released) and you will be fine. > > make-kpkg --revision=pollywog.1 kernel_image I did it this way for

Re: kernel question

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 5 Jan, Pollywog wrote about "kernel question" > I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. > Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a > regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way? > I have done this bef

RE: kernel question

2000-01-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jan-2000 Pollywog wrote: > I just found out that Linux kernel 2.2.14 is out and it is stable. > Debian does not yet have a kernel-source-2.2.14-deb out. Can I just use a > regular kernel source tarball to make a custom kernel image the Debian way? > I have done this before but I suspect the

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:31:53AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > There is a kernel-headers package...(?) > I'd like to download it. I guess it's for people who need to compile modules but don't want to download the full source. It's in main / devel, but I haven't downloaded it. > Once I had a problem c

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Oki DZ
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > You don't need the kernel-headers package. All the headers required are in There is a kernel-headers package...(?) I'd like to download it. > the kernel-source package. You don't need the symlink either, the headers > are included from the right pl

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Pollywog
On 30-Dec-1999 Paul J. Keenan wrote: > You don't need the kernel-headers package. All the headers required are in > the kernel-source package. You don't need the symlink either, the headers > are included from the right places automagically. I've got neither and > can compile 2.2.13 no problems

Re: kernel question

1999-12-30 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:51:50PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Do I need to make this symlink: > > ln -s /usr/src/linux/include /usr/include ? > > I already have /usr/src/kernel-sources-2.2.13 symlinked to /usr/src/linux > > I already have a /usr/include, which was made when I installed Potato.

Re: Kernel question: From bootdisk to hard drive

1999-10-01 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Please try to keep lines to <76 chars in length. On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: > I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my > home directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also > used cat /dev/fd0 > /home/da

Re: kernel question

1999-04-19 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Actually, if you set versioning info on all modules, you're required > > to compile ppp support as a module. Besides that, if you use modules > > at all, you may as well just load things as needed since you've already > > committed to the overhead

Re: kernel question

1999-04-18 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 18 Apr, Thomas S. Howard wrote about "Re: kernel question" > On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > Hi, >> >If I compile something as a module rather than include >> >it in the kernel, will I get a performance l

Re: kernel question

1999-04-18 Thread Thomas S. Howard
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Hi, > > If I compile something as a module rather than include > > it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I > > use something very often, such as ppp, should I include > > it in the kernel or compile it as a module

Re: kernel question

1999-04-18 Thread shaleh
> > Hi, > If I compile something as a module rather than include > it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I > use something very often, such as ppp, should I include > it in the kernel or compile it as a module? > There should not be a difference. If you us

Re: Kernel question

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: : Hello my debian friends, I was wondering if anyone here could point me : into the direction of getting the .config file of the default kernel that : is on the boot disks. I looked on the debian site and could not find the : maintainer of the bootdi

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-09 Thread W Paul Mills
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 05:23:04PM -0600, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing > > "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: > > > > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ St

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: >> > "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like thi

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 8 Jul 1997, Emilio Lopes wrote: > > "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when > JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this > JHV> in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the cons

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "JHV" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JHV> By any chance were you compiling in an X Window? Recently, when JHV> I recompiled my kernel I got all sorts of weird errors like this JHV> in an rxvt. But when I tried again from the console, everything JHV> was fine. Don't ask me w

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > Hi. > > questions, questions > > How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage? > > Reason for asking > > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing > "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 m

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 07, 1997 at 05:23:04PM -0600, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing > "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: > > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > > cpp: output pip

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, Kevin J Poorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try to compile useing : "make zImage" I get the following message, about 3 minutes into compile.: : : *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_ Start Screen Dump _*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* : : cpp: output pipe has been close

Re: Kernel Question

1997-07-08 Thread Philippe Troin
On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 17:23:04 CDT Kevin J Poorman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How will I know if my kernel is to big for a zImage? The build will complain at the end. Then you just have to type 'make bzImage'. > Reason for asking > > I can't get my kernel to compile at all and when I try

Re: Kernel Question...

1997-06-14 Thread Philippe Troin
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:46:07 EDT Matthew Tebbens ([EMAIL PROTECTED] .net) wrote: > I just re-compilied the kernel for my system. I used 'make menuconfig'. > Is kernel support for JAVA binaries included by default ? > I don't remember seeing it in menuconfig, and I don't see anything in > /usr/src