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RE: Frozen distribution



On 16-Mar-2000 Bryan Kim wrote:
> Hi. I use debian on both my desktop and laptop. Laptop is actually corel, but
> aside from the front end, the distribution looks like straight debian. I am
> pretty motivated to upgrade that distribution to the latest debian, but my
> desktop is having problems that I can't resolve yet.
> 
> With the frozen distribution, netscape communicator 4.7 dies with a bus
> error. Does anyone know how to resolve this?
> 

is this the packaged version or the one from their site?  glibc based
communicators seem to not like Xlibs.

> Also, has anyone upgraded from Corel Linux to debian potato? I am afraid that
> I might mess everything up once I clear the current packages list. 
> 

it is possible, you do have to do some hand work because their tool seems to
not want you to use potato.  I have heard of successes.

> On upgrading the kernel on my laptop, I usually do 'make-kpkg' kernel
> installations. If I upgrade to 2.2.14, would installing the standard debian
> pcmcia package for that kernel version work, or should I compile from source?
> The source is easy enough, But I want debian to keep track of those things...
> 
> 

for pcmcia do the following:
apt-get install pcmcia-source
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf pcmcia-cs.tar.gz
cd linux
make menuconfig / xconfig whatever
make-kpkg kernel_image
make-kpkg modules_image <-- this makes the pcmcia-modules.deb
cd ../modules/pcmcia-cs-<version>
debian/rules binary
cd ..
dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-<version>.deb pcmcia-cs-<version>.deb
/usr/src/pcmcia-modules-<version>.deb
reboot

The reason for compiling your own pcmcia modules is that they must know about
you compiling your kernel with apm.  I assume you turn on apm because this is a
laptop.  If you do not change either the SMP flag or the use apm flag, you do
not need to recompile.

Perhaps someone should write up a quicky debian laptop howto.  Werner?


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