On Tue 28 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote: > >D'oh! I was trying to build under 2.2.19, which is known to cause > >problems with fakeroot. > > I didn't know that. Does anybody know what's actually wrong with it? I've > actually just switched the default install kernel for woody back to 2.2.19 > from 2.4.5 because the latter didn't seem especially stable either. > > I'll have a go at building a 2.4.9 or so and see if that's any better.
At least on sa1100-type machines (mostly the lart) I've found 2.4.6-rmk1-np2 to be a good kernel vintage. After that things started to break again and boot loaders need to be changed... This may not be true for netwinders and rpcs of course... Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel (00 44) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
