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. michael
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