upgrade-i386 problem: test my kernel?
So, since nobody else was dealing with populating the upgrade-i386 directory,
I took a crack at it.
Background is in #241497. The essence is that woody users using real i386
boxes (not 486 or higher) need a patched kernel installed before they can
upgrade to woody. I have therefore made such a patched kernel, by taking
the last version of the kernel in woody, hacking out all support for anything
except upgrading on real-i386, hacking in the necessary patch, and building
in a woody chroot. This seemed the safest option.
I have therefore made the following kernel packages:
kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1.dsc
kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1.tar.gz
kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.changes
kernel-image-2.4.18-386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.deb
kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.deb
At the moment they sit on my home computer because I don't have a reasonable
place to upload them which has enough quota.
I would like someone with a real i386 to
volunteer to test these packages in a woody->sarge upgrade. I can't
really test them myself because I don't have a real i386.
But what I would like *first* is a place to put them for now so that such
volunteer testers can get them.
They are nearly lintian and linda clean (there are some warnings which
are unavoidable due to the unusual way kernel packages were built).
If they survive testing, I'll write up a little "how to upgrade
from woody to sarge if you have a real i386" and propose them for the
upgrade-i386 directory.
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