Re: Kernel upgrade problem
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 06:54:12PM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 05:09:30PM +0800, Lawrence Li wrote:
> > I would be grateful if you can share your expertise on the kernel
> > upgrade of Debian PPC on Apple iBook.
> >
> > I'm trying to upgrade the kernel from the default 2.6.8 to the latest
> > (from kernel.org), and I followed the drill using make-kpkg. However,
> > after the compilation began (i.e.: after "make-kpkg kernel_image") I
> > was prompted with loads of yes or no questions, since I'm clueless
> > about most of them I just press enter for default, but the compilation
> > failed in the end (don't see the .deb file which is supposed to show
> > up). I wonder if this is normal (to have so many - I think there are
> > around 100 of them - prompts during the process)? Anyone has
> > experience on this?
> >
> > My environment is iBook G3 (late 2001), Debian Sarge.
>
> Since 2.6.9 the debian kernel packages for linux are calledlinux-image-*
> You probably want to install one of the linux-image-2.6.17-2-powerpc*
> packages.
Actually: since Etch. Backports kernel-image-* packages may be found on
backports.org . Not sure about ppc, though.
-- Tzafrir
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