Re: installing kernel 2.6 on woody
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 04:08:06PM -0500, Andy Rowan wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:08:06 -0500
> From: Andy Rowan <bogey2521@hotmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: installing kernel 2.6 on woody
>
> Hi,
>
> Please forgive a newbie question, I'm an old unix hand, but new to Debian,
> so some of the installation things are puzzling me.
>
> I just installed woody, but I need a kernel newer than the 2.4.18 one that
> it includes, because I have large hard disks >137GB. So I figured I'd just
Didn't know 2.4.18 have problems with large disks...
> go with the 2.6.8 one that's in Sarge ... specifically the
> kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp one, because I have a pentium 4 with HT. But
> apt-get is complaining that I don't have a new enough version of
> initrd-tools and module-init-tools. Is this as simple as just having
> apt-get install the newer ones of those (from Sarge)? ... unless those
> cause other dependency issues.
Those depends on libc of greater version than in woody. So you may
install needed packages from http://www.backports.org or build necessary
packages by yourself. But if you are ready to go with 2.6 kernel, may be
it is simpler to go with Sarge? which is going to became stable some day
:)
> I'm just a little reluctant to just hack away at pushing new versions of
> things on there without being sure I know what I'm doing.
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