Re: Development Kernel - Required progs

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@greene.xtn.net>]

David Z. Maze wrote:
> 
> 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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	Thanks for the help, I'll give er a shot tonight.


-- 
Ed


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