Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
James Hosken wrote: > That's just what I needed, thanks. I have followed your > instructions and the kernel has installed OK and booted OK. But I > have lost the network. If worse comes to worse you can boot LinuxOLD to get your network back to be able to download new packages. In particular yo

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread James Hosken
That's just what I needed, thanks. I have followed your instructions and the kernel has installed OK and booted OK. But I have lost the network. I ran modconf and added the network drivers. But I don't know how to reconfigure the network for DHCP? Please can some one enlighten me. Regards James

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Bob Proulx
James Hosken wrote: > I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550 > graphics card. I assume this means you are running a linux 2.2 kernel then? That is, sounds like you had not previously customized your kernel? Just using a 2.2 and now want to install 2.4? In tha

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote: > Hi > > I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550 > graphics card. > > Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send > me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote: > Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send > me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org. Sorry for hitting the trigger early last time. I'm doing this now - check out http://www.holtmann.org/

Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread James Hosken
Hi I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550 graphics card. Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org. I'm using lilo, so what do I need to do to that after I have i

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-26 Thread Ben Blout
>Pigeon wrote: >On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote: >> I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from >> 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This >> being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I though

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-26 Thread Darryl Barlow
Ben, You haven't given a lot of information but based on what you have I suspect your problem is initrd. 2.4.20 Debian images definitely use initrd, which means you need an initrd=/initrd.img line in lilo for that kernel, and a symlink initrd.img to /boot/initrd.img-2.4 ??? I know the 2.4.18

woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-26 Thread Ben Blout
I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought was the simplest thing, and chose the 2.2.20 image from security.debian.org, using

woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-25 Thread Ben Blout
I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought was the simplest thing, and chose the 2.2.20 image from security.debian.org, using

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote: > I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from > 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This > being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought > was the simples

woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-24 Thread Ben Blout
I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought was the simplest thing, and chose the 2.2.20 image from security.debian.org, using