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RE: Kernels from the 2.1 series



Almost ll debian packages should work w/ either 2.x kernel.  kerneld needs to
be turned off by commenting auto from /etc/modules.  Everything else should
work fine.


On 19-Oct-98 Paul Crowley wrote:
> I'm thinking of moving over to the 2.1 series kernels, since it seems
> that they're pretty stable these days.  Will this make life very much
> harder for me?
> 
> In particular:
> 
> * I believe I'll need this new "kmod" thing rather than the "kerneld"
> that I'm used to.  Do I already have this installed?  Do I need a
> special package?
> 
> * I've heard talk of a change to the behaviour of "chown" that breaks
> dpkg.  Do I need a special dpkg?  A special kernel patch?
> 
> * Will ps, mount, etc keep going without change?
> 
> * Anything I don't know about?
> 
> thanks in advance,
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E-Mail: Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>
Date: 19-Oct-98
Time: 15:41:30

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