So, since nobody else was dealing with populating the upgrade-i386 directory, I took a crack at it.
Background is in #241497. The essence is that woody users using real i386 boxes (not 486 or higher) need a patched kernel installed before they can upgrade to woody. I have therefore made such a patched kernel, by taking the last version of the kernel in woody, hacking out all support for anything except upgrading on real-i386, hacking in the necessary patch, and building in a woody chroot. This seemed the safest option. I have therefore made the following kernel packages: kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1.dsc kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1.tar.gz kernel-image-2.4.18-i386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.changes kernel-image-2.4.18-386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.deb kernel-pcmcia-modules-2.4.18-386upgrade_2.4.18-1_i386.deb At the moment they sit on my home computer because I don't have a reasonable place to upload them which has enough quota. I would like someone with a real i386 to volunteer to test these packages in a woody->sarge upgrade. I can't really test them myself because I don't have a real i386. But what I would like *first* is a place to put them for now so that such volunteer testers can get them. They are nearly lintian and linda clean (there are some warnings which are unavoidable due to the unusual way kernel packages were built). If they survive testing, I'll write up a little "how to upgrade from woody to sarge if you have a real i386" and propose them for the upgrade-i386 directory. -- This space intentionally left blank.
