Re: 2.4 Kernel Stability

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

OK,

It took me a few days, but, I decided to experiment with kernel building 
on a separate system
for now. These steps work until I enter in:

'mak,e menuconfig'

which give me this error:

You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

Numerous attempts to find the *.deb package that has the libcurses, 
ncurses or curses
stuff, have resulted in several additional packages containing *curses* 
but nothing corrects
this error?

Ideas?


James






Andrew Perrin wrote:

> You're confusing debian versions with kernel versions. Debian woody (3.0)
> can run on top of a 2.4.x kernel - I do it with 2.4.20, which I had to
> download by hand from packages.debian.org, but if you're OK with 2.4.18,
> you can get it with apt-get:
>
> cd /usr/src
> apt-get install kernel-source-2.4.18
> bunzip2 kernel-source*bz
> tar xf kernel-source-2.4.18.tar
> cd kernel-source-2.4.18
> make menuconfig
>
> ...
>
> make-kpkg kernel_image
> cd ..
> dpkg -i ./kernel-image-.....
>
> should do it.
>
> ap
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, James wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need many of the new features in a 2.4 based kernel on my portable.
> > However, I like the Stable
> > packages, as I have not had any issues, except my own lack of knowledge
> > of Debian on a laptop.
> >
> > I read that may people are running 2.4.x kernels on their portables. Is
> > there a (semi) stable release
> > of  Debian 2.4, that I can run on a portable?
> >
> > I have a Prostar P-IV running at 2GHz....
> >
> > I have not tried to fix these 2.2 problems:
> >
> > /dev/dsp            device not found and not working i.e. no sound. (I
> > prefer Alsa)
> >
> > CD/DVD         anything as the native deb install does not allow much of
> > anything to work
> >                            I install with floppies....
> >
> >
> > Could a portable boot 2 kernels (2.2.a and 2.4) from lilo without having
> > the installed packages wig out?
> > This way I can test everything on the same portable BEFORE making a
> > permanent commitment to 2.4.
> >
> > Is 2.4.x near a formal release for Debian?
> >
> > I really do not want to install everthing twice, but, if I have to I
> > could do this and test all that is critical
> > on 2.4, before deleteing the 2.2 kernel and packages? Suggestions and
> > pointers to a  howto?
> >
> >
> > Actually, this is hopefully answered somewhere(in a howto) ????
> >
> > I also want to add xawtv and many other MPEG4 packages, but, they only
> > seem to run on a 2.4 kernel.
> >
> > Ideas and suggestions are most welcome!
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
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