Re: How do I get larg file support?
brian moore <bem@cmc.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:08:38PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote:
>> Let;s just cut to the chase on this.
>>
>> I need to be able to create, and work with larg files (> 2G) under
>> Debian Linux. Secondly I need the moststable system for doing this,
>> as it will be a production machine.
>
>You need many things from 'unstable' (though perhaps most of them are
>now in 'testing', I haven't looked).
>
>The biggies:
> a 2.4.x kernel
> glibc2.1
> lots of little things like the current fileutils, etc
testing should have recent enough versions of libc6 and fileutils for
this. I don't think it has precompiled 2.4 kernel images yet, but those
are easy enough to do yourself, as discussed elsewhere.
--
Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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