On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 07:22:46AM +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > I have a Linux 2.2 (upgraded from 2.1 apart from the kernel) box that i assume you mean `Debian' and not `Linux' Linux is just a kernel, GNU/Linux is the operating system, Debian is the distribution. i assume you now have a Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) system running on a 2.0 kernel. > has a cable modem on eth0 (DHCP) and a LAN on eth1 (192.168.1.1). > I have miraculously managed to get ipmasqing to work a year or two ago. > Does anyone have any suggestions to what I have to expect (and do) if > I download the 2.2.17 source and compile that on this box? Files to > change, settings to make (docs to read ;-)). Debian 2.2 aka potato is fully ready for a 2.2 kernel, there is really not much of anything you have to do, as the kernel specific items are smart enough to detect and adapt to either a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel. all you should have to do is download the 2.2.17 tarball from ftp.kernel.org (use a mirror), untar it into /usr/local/src, run `make config' (or make menuconfig if you prefer) to configure the kernel as you need it. then run: make-kpkg clean fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=5:hostname.2.2.0 kernel_image after which you will have a kernel .deb in /usr/local/src/ which you can install with dpkg -i. make sure you configure lilo to let you boot the old kernel if something goes wrong. you need the kernel-package package installed to use make-kpkg. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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