On 2008-04-21 10:21 +0200, Steven Jones wrote:
David Baron wrote:
One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable
with 2.4 and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable
ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or such) will render the system mostly unusable. I
had just this problem and bash would not run. I was able to play
with other shells a bit but it was a real mess until I realized that
the env variable was at fault!
Ok, so I am "stuck" with sarge? no huge biggee...later when I can
afford a pair of 500gb sata's it means a rebuild....no huge issue
right now.
No, Etch is supposed to work with a 2.4 kernel. Beware that you will
have to install and boot a 2.6 kernel _before_ you can upgrade to Lenny.
Sven