On 16-Mar-2000 Bryan Kim wrote: > Hi. I use debian on both my desktop and laptop. Laptop is actually corel, but > aside from the front end, the distribution looks like straight debian. I am > pretty motivated to upgrade that distribution to the latest debian, but my > desktop is having problems that I can't resolve yet. > > With the frozen distribution, netscape communicator 4.7 dies with a bus > error. Does anyone know how to resolve this? >
is this the packaged version or the one from their site? glibc based communicators seem to not like Xlibs. > Also, has anyone upgraded from Corel Linux to debian potato? I am afraid that > I might mess everything up once I clear the current packages list. > it is possible, you do have to do some hand work because their tool seems to not want you to use potato. I have heard of successes. > On upgrading the kernel on my laptop, I usually do 'make-kpkg' kernel > installations. If I upgrade to 2.2.14, would installing the standard debian > pcmcia package for that kernel version work, or should I compile from source? > The source is easy enough, But I want debian to keep track of those things... > > for pcmcia do the following: apt-get install pcmcia-source cd /usr/src tar zxvf pcmcia-cs.tar.gz cd linux make menuconfig / xconfig whatever make-kpkg kernel_image make-kpkg modules_image <-- this makes the pcmcia-modules.deb cd ../modules/pcmcia-cs-<version> debian/rules binary cd .. dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-<version>.deb pcmcia-cs-<version>.deb /usr/src/pcmcia-modules-<version>.deb reboot The reason for compiling your own pcmcia modules is that they must know about you compiling your kernel with apm. I assume you turn on apm because this is a laptop. If you do not change either the SMP flag or the use apm flag, you do not need to recompile. Perhaps someone should write up a quicky debian laptop howto. Werner?
