Re: apt-get & kernel question

[Dean <destruss@rconnect.com>]

Hi Eric:
 Thanks for the reply. I checked and there is no ppp.o
in /lib/modules/2.2.15/net, but there is in my old
kernel at /lib/modules/2.0.36/net. Can I just
copy that to my 2.2.15 file? Or do I need to
make up a module?      Dean

"Eric G . Miller" wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:08:29AM -0500, Dean wrote:
> > Hi:
> >    I recently upgraded to potato and decided to upgrade kernel to 2.2.15
> >
> > same time. Everything went smoothly except I no longer have ppp
> > in the kernel. I still have the old kernel to boot to which has ppp.
>
>   You sure it's not available? Look for /lib/modules/2.2.15/net/ppp.o .
>   I'm thinking ppp should be available with the stock kernel (since you
>   can install Debian with 5 floppies and a dialup line).
>
> > My question is if I use the old kernel to apt-get something, will
> > this put whatever I install in the wrong place or doesn't the kernel
> > matter as far as where the packages go?  Tia    Dean
>
>   Matters not a whit.  However, a few packages may care which series of
>   kernel you're running.
>
> --
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=/vmlinuz bs=1 \
>      count=`du -Lb /vmlinuz | awk '{ /^([0-9])+/ ; print $1 }'`
> shutdown -r now
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