Re: Installing on a PB190
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Damiano Giorgi wrote:
> Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > Last week I uploaded 2.6.8
> > kernel-images for nine m68k subarchitectures, and it is working pretty
> > well on my Q840, maybe you can give it a try?
>
> I tried, but it won't even load and Penguin stops with the error
> Wrong magic number 60562 in kernel header
>
> I've downloaded it in both binary and text modes, but the result is the
> same. I guess I'm doing something really stupid. What does the .deb
> extension mean? Is it a sort of encoding or archive format?
It's the Debian package format. If you don't have Debian's dpkg, you can unpack
manually. Basically it's just an ar-archive that contains a few gzipped tar
archives. So all you need to unpack it are ar, gzip, and tar.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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