On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:36, Ph. Marek wrote: > Hello everybody, > > > I'd like to ask for some help. > > I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd > like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing > the whole system. > (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others). > > > About a year ago I could take a debian-installation, take the needed > files, and put them into a chroot on the old machines, and it worked. > Without any problem. > > I wanted to do that again, with the current versions; but now I get an > error message "Kernel too old" (from ld-linux.so AFAIK). > > [ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on > 2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at > least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4. > backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ] > > Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or > some easy way to recompile it? > I'd like to use the normal debian-packages, as they're updated > regularly -- the best solution for me would be to pin libc6 to some > version or repository, keeping support for the old 2.4, too. > > > Help? Any other ideas? > Thank you for all answers. > > [Please keep me CCed.] > > > Regards, > > Phil
Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message. anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13. I don't know if that's any help. Nigel. btw. All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, started off as Woody 3.0r2, and is why I still have the 2.4.27 kernel installed on all of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
