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Woody kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 update questions
Could somebody please provide a simple breakdown of what I need to do update my kernel? I started installed Debian(Woody) with kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 on some machines few months ago. I was (and still am) new to Debian, and don't understand all of it's nuances yet. I saw the Debian Security Advisory on June 8, so now I want to install the updated kernel. First, I don't understand Debian's version numbering. The advisory tells me if I have 2.4.18-bf2.4, then should install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4. Doesn't Debian jack up the version numbers when a new update comes out? How do I tell if I've updated a system yet or not (other than writing down a note to myself) Also, I tried this on a test machine by just typing: #apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 It then proceeded to give me a bunch of warnings about modules. On this particular test machine, I never compiled any modules, so threw caution into the wind and just let it rip. It seemed to work ok, and allegedly took care of my boot loader and then I rebooted and I was still alive when all was done. So my main questions are: 1) How do I really tell if I upgraded my kernel or not? If I do a uname -r, it tells me I'm running 2.4.18-bf2.4. Well, that's what uname told me before I did this too, so how do I tell? 2) I'm installing kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 to "upgrade" the kernel, but there was no kernel-image package on my system in the first place, so how is package management really handling the kernel? 3) On some systems I have development tools and kernel headers installed because I needed to compile an e100 module or whatnot. Will I have to recompile my modules again? This is what I gather from all the big warnings when installing kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4. But what about updated kernel-headers? I don't see any updated kernel-headers around to match my updated kernel. Will this work? Are there any other considerations that I need to be aware of, or am I basically doing this correctly and worrying too much? Thanks for any input. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How to install Debian 3.0 with an ServeRaid COntroller (ips)???
Well, I'm not sure about your 'serveraid controller', so don't know if this will work for you. But just yesterday, I ran into the same thing with my Dell PowerEdge 1550 with a Perc3/DC RAID controller. I was booting with my Debian 3.0 Minimal Install CD (iso image woody-i386-1.iso) And it tells me no hard drive could be found, and if I want to load any drivers from a floppy. I downloaded the floppy disk image: http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/2.4.18-bf2.4_scsi_and_bcm5700_preload_floppy-1440.bin.gz made the floppy disk (instructions are at http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/) put the floppy in during install, and chose megaraid.o, and then everything worked fine. Hope this helps for you. On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 09:42, Yildiz, Murat wrote: > Hi, > How to install Debian 3.0 with an ServeRaid COntroller (ips) ??? > Booting with CD5 (bf2.4) it cannot detect the ServeRaid COntroller. > What is the easiest way to overcome this??? > > > Murat > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
what is bf2.4, actually?
I'm relatively new to Debian, and have had pretty good success with it so far, but am trying to become more knowledgable about it. Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? Why is it called bf2.4? What makes it different from a standard 2.4.18? I'm running it on all my boxes running Debian, and I have no complaints, but I'm running based on instructions from other people, so while I had good instructions to get up and running, I'm missing some of the finer points. I looked all over the web for docs that explain this so-called "bf variant", but can't find anything. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge. -DW signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: what is bf2.4, actually?
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 09:45, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Thursday 03 July 2003 15:16, Duane Winner wrote: > > Could somebody please breifly explain to me what the bf2.4 variant on > > the 2.4.18 kernel in Woody is all about? > > The bf2.4 is a 2.4 kernel that's built for compatibility so it can be used on > install- and rescue-disks on a wide variety of systems. It will run pretty > well, but you're missing some optimizations. Sorry to be a pest, but what optimizations am I missing? What would be the ideal kernel to be running on production servers? I'm guessing that I should be compiling my own kernel in these instances. But until I reach that point (compiling kernel), is there a better stable kernel I might want to install? And when I do compile, what's the best/latest/stable kernel source I should grab? Thanks again. > > -- > Got Backup? > signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
