Re: dpkg and kernel-2.4.18 installation
It seems like the package isn't made. Don't you get errors while creating
the package (the make-kpkg... command)? If so, post them, that might give
a clue.
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Joel wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm having difficulties to configure and install a custom kernel 2.4.18. I
> currently run "Woody" with kernel 2.2.x installed.
> This is the Quicklist of the commands I tried to install kernel 2.4.18:
>
> 1. su + password
> 2. Install kernel-pachake kernel-source-2.4.18 from CD
> 3. cd /usr/src
> 4. bunzip2 kernel-source-2.4.18.tar.bz2
> 5. tar xvf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar
> 6 ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18 /usr/src/linux
> 7. cd linux
> 8. make config
> 9. select kernel modules
> 10. make-kpkg --bzimage --revision --initrc killerj.1 kernel_image
> 11. cd ..
> 12. dpkg -i kernel-image-2.4.18_killerj.1_i386.deb
>
> This last command returns the following error message:
> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.18_killerj.1_i386.deb ( --install ):
> cannot access archive: no such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> kernel-image-2.4.18_killerj.1_i386.deb
>
> Hope that will help troubleshooting.
> Joel
>
> "Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect
> their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists,
> will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger
> tear a million of you to pieces."
> Jean Paul Marat, 18th Century French Visionary (and revolutionary),
> murdered in his bathtub by Royalist Charlotte Corday
>
>
>
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