Re: compiling a 2.4 kernel

[Steven Jones <thing@thing.dyndns.org>]

David Baron wrote:
> One word of severe warning: Current libc packages are incompatable with 2.4 
> and any hint of a 2.4 kernel (such as an env variable ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4 or 
> such) will render the system mostly unusable. I had just this problem and 
> bash would not run. I was able to play with other shells a bit but it was a 
> real mess until I realized that the env variable was at fault!

So far Ive set up bind, sendmail and have no issues...while running 
2.4.27-3 on etch....all std etch packages I must add.

regards

Steven