On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:15:22PM +1000, Jennifer wrote: > Dear Debian people > > I am newly getting to start to learn Debian, > and try to get Debian working on my PC. > > I used Debian 3.0 Woody CD set (7 of them) to install. > And the kernel version is 2.2.20. > For I need to install Oracle9i on this Debian, > so I need to upgrade kernel to 2.4.xx > I downloaded "kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386_2.4.21-2_i386.deb" from Debian site. > And I copied this image file to /usr/src/ > Then I cd to /usr/src > I ran the command > "dpkg --install kernel-image-2.4.21-2-386_2.4.21-2_i386.deb". > The console told me the following error message: > > You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.21-2-386). > but you do not seem to have a mkinitrd command in the path. > This will break the installation. I am aborting now. > Could not find mkinitrd in path at /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst line 165.dpkg: > error processing /usr/src/kernel-image....(--install) > > So I used command of "find / -name mkinitrd". And there is no result. > I also used "man mkinitrd", and it says no man entry for mkinitrd. > > In this case, what should I do? Go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages search for "kernel-image-2.4" in "stable" (woody is the current stable release) click a suitable package e.g. http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/kernel-image-2.4.18-386.html See there that the packages depends on the package initrd-tools which provides the program mkinitrd. I think that you overruled dependencies, "dpkg --install <package>" respects them. > > Your advice will be highly appreciated. Thank you very much. Please use next time 'debian-boot@lists.debian.org' for a more installer related issue. > Jennifer Z Geert Stappers
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