Re: Request for help: upgrade Woody -> Sarge
Hi,
i just discovered one more bug in the release-notes for hppa:
in [2] it says:
|> "add the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list:
|> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dist/sarge/main/upgrade-kernel ./
needs to be
|> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/upgrade-kernel ./
On Tuesday, 31 May 2005, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as you all know we are currently near to the release. *g* But there are
> still some things which need to be fixed before.
>
> One of these things is the upgrade path for machines running with a
> 64bit capable HP PA-Risc CPUs. If a HPPA is running woody with a 64bit
> kernel, a newer kernel than 2.4.17 (woody distri kernel) is needed by
> libc. That's the reason why we provide upgrade kernel. All these things
> are described on the release notes at [1] and [2] we are currently
> working on.
>
> As i personaly only have access on HPPA C360 which has some wired
> firmware, which is only able to _boot_ 32bit kernels, but able to _run_
> 64 kernels, i needed to recompile the current woody distri kernel 2.4.17
> with a 64bit capable compiler and a special kernel option and do the
> upgrade tests afterward.
>
> I would like to ensure that i don't have done any mistakes and would
> like to ask, if someone with access to a _real_ 64bit HPPA machine could
> verify our upgrade path.
>
> Please keep in mind that you need a plain woody installation for that...
>
> Greetings
> Martin
>
>
> [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/hppa/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-new-kernel
> [2] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/hppa/release-notes/ap-kernel-upgrade-howto.en.html
>
>
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