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Re: Followup on unimplemented system calls 103 and 119



--On Mon, Nov 9, 1998 10:42 am -0500 "Matthew Haas" <mthbbs@lightlink.com>
wrote: 

> I just browsed through Debian-sparc archives, and got a few answers, but I
> still have a few questions:
> 

Oops.  I apologise for my last mail, then :-)

> There is a kernel 2.0.35 binary which I could have installed as opposed to
> the default 2.0.33... if I were to install this one, would it be
> sufficient enough to fix my problems (get rid of the syscall warnings)?
> 

Yes.

> Compiling a kernel, I read something about the kernel couldn't be compiled
> with the debian source, and to get a vger source tree... what about a
> regular stock source tree? I am considering ATTEMPTING to compile 2.1.125
> after I get my system up and running, will I need any extra patches? 

Don't, it won't work.  Wait for the new glibc in a few days (Christian?) and
then the new kernel package which will be uploaded at the same time.

> 
> I saw a math-emu module on installation... this wouldn't be *needed* by my
> SS-2, would it? It has its own FPU, so it shouldn't need any additional
> things right?

Not needed, now.  Shouldn't be harmful, either.

> 
> I also saw a bpp module, what does this jobby do?
> 

No idea :-)

> Simple Debian administrivia:
> 
>  - Instead of using dselect for everything, what if I wanted to manually
> invoke dpkg for a few packages? Would dpkg --unpack -R package.deb be
> sufficient, or are other arguments required?

dpkg -i package.deb

is the one to use.

> 
>  - I've heard of this apt program... is it a new front end to dpkg? I have
> also read it is sort of broke and a library must be recompiled.

It is broken with new glibc's, since the stdc++ libraries don't work with
the new glibcs.  It is easy enough to recompile, or a new package will
probably be uploaded soon.

Jules

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