Package: www.debian.org Version: current On the page
http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 there is a list of various potentially problematic packages. makedev should be added to the list, because the kernel pty/ttyp majors changed in 2.2.x (in fact the change seems to be there in 2.0.36, too, but with backwards compatibility). makedev 2.3.1-19, which is on the CD I have, seems to have a bug in it, in that the postinst script creates the devices in / instead of /dev. It looks like this is fixed in the current stable version 2.3.1-23 (which I just FTPed). Unless one has this fixed version, the system doesn't run very well with kernel 2.2.12, since the ptys in /dev have the wrong major. So the bottom line is: one needs a newer makedev. The current stable one works, for example. Perhaps there are similar problems for other packages that made it onto older slink CDs, too, so it might be a good idea to add the FTP site to /etc/apt/sources.list and do an `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade' before trying the 2.2.x kernels. This doesn't help people without Internet access, though. -- Raj Manandhar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (256) 922-1512 x2900
