Re: SMP kernel

[Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au>]

Hi,


* Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> [020205 12:33]:
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> On Monday 04 February 2002 03:36 pm, Nick Hastings wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >    not sure what's available in potato but a quick check on a sid box
> > reveals:
> >
> > %  apt-cache search kernel-image | grep -i smp
> > kernel-image-2.4.16-686-smp - Linux kernel image 2.4.16 on
> > PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP. kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp - Linux kernel
> > image 2.4.17 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII SMP.
> >
> > So if I wanted to install an off the shelf SMP kernel I'd do
> >
> > % sudo apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
> >
> 
> Its been awhile since I looked at Potato but it used to be you had to 
> upgrade a few packages from >=woody in order to run a 2.4 kernel. 
> Adrian Bunk has/had a site with the relevant packages compiled for 
> Potato, or maybe 'apt-get source -b <package name>' could do this with 
> woody source locations in ~/apt/sources.list

I just reread the original email. It says that Michael actually already
upgraded to testing. So it should be ok.

Nick.

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