On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 03:05:45PM +0100, Walther, Christoph wrote: > Hi, Debian-interested community, > > a downloaded kernel 2.4.20 I provided to re-compile for adapting my HW-environment > on a Debian 3.0r1-system (Intel 166 MMX); > the first compiling and installation ran well. > > The needed following compilings and installations of this kernel > unfortunately now shows some failures and back settings: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20 > fakeroot make-kpkg clean > fakeroot make-kpkg --config=menuconfig kernel-image
Looks good. > make menuconfig obscuriously will be skipped, the make-command only > runs for a short time and did end with following messages: > > make [4]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/kernel' > make [3]: ***[_sfdep_kernel] Error 2 > make [3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.20' > make [2]: ***[dep-files] Error 2 > make [2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.20' > make [1]: ***[dummy_do_dep] Error 2 > make [1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.4.20' > make: *** [stamp-kernel-configure] Error 2 Hm, that's odd. You do have write permissions to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20, right? > If I do now at first > > make menuconfig > > an then > > make-kpkg kernel-image > > the compiling-routine and the creation of the Debian-kernel-packet will be completed > properly without visible warning-messages. Cool. > Going to install the Debian-kernel-packet by > > apt-get install /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386.deb > > following error-message occurs: > > E: Release 'kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386' for 'python-zlib' was not found That's never going to work, apt doesn't work like that. > Trying to install alternatively this Debian-kernelpacket with > > dpkg -i /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.20_10.00.Custom_i386.deb > > won't succeed too. What error does it give? Presuming that file exists and is a proper .deb, it should work fine. As root, of course. > A quick view at the messages this morning told me about problems with modules, > and an info were given that modules will be moved to another directory but I don't > remember further details exactly now. I'm almost certain this is irrelevant. > Does anyone know what's wrong here and what I can do to proceed/succeed the > kernel-compiling and installation ? Using dpkg should work. Please provide us with the error it prints out, and perhaps we can help more. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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