Re: Development Kernel - Required progs
Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net> writes:
EC> I'm interested in trying the latest kernel 2.1.105, but in the
EC> docs it has a list of required programs that you need to use it.
EC> Of that list, I am missing 4 of them.
EC> PROCINFO
EC> AUTOFS
EC> NCPFS
EC> PCMCMIA-CS
EC>
EC> The last two, I know I can do without as I'm not using that kind
EC> of hardware, but the first two I'm not sure about. What packages
EC> (deb or tar) do these utils come in, and where can I find them?
Neither procinfo nor autofs are strictly required. (procinfo gives a
summary of various system statistics, autofs is a filesystem
automounter.) procinfo lives in the sysutils package; autofs is in
the autofs package.
EC> Finally, are there any Warnings or FYI's I should know about
EC> before trying this kernel? I understand that with the 2.1.xx
EC> kernels there is no need for kerneld. If I'm right, is there a
EC> 'proper' way of disabling kerneld besides hacking
EC> '/etc/init.d/kerneld'?
The version of /etc/init.d/kerneld with the frozen distribution deals
appropriately with kernels that don't need a running kerneld. It's a
good idea to add a cron entry to unload unneeded modules; see kmod.txt
in the kernel source for information. If you're upgrading from 2.0.x
to 2.1.x, watch out for the printer devices; what used to be lp1 is
now lp0, so you'll need to change your printcap file. The structure
of the sound driver also noticably changed. That's the major things I
can think of...
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