Re: problem in upgrading kernel from 2.4.18 to 2.6.3
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jack kinnon wrote:
| Hi
|
| Thanks for the reply. I checked through .../Documentation/Changes.
| The GNU C minimal is 2.95.3. I have 2.95.4. I have higher version
| than required for 'make', 'binutils', 'util-linux' and
| 'module-init-tools'.
|
| I cannot do online install under Linux because the modem is not
| configured for Linux yet. What I am doing now is to download .tar.gz
| or .deb files to the Window partition, switch to Linux, mount the Win
| drive and cp over the files. For .tar.gz files I would 'tar' it and
| then follow the instructions in README and INSTALL. For .deb files, I
| would do a 'dpkg -i". This method is no good for package like gcc
| which has a lot of dependencies. Any other way I can do it?
|
| Cheers.
|
1. Can you check that you have libncurses5-dev and kernel-package
installed?
2. Maybe getting a dialup going would be an alternative approach, so
you can use apt. Is this possible-what modem do you have?
Tim
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