Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-30 Thread Lance Tagliapietra
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:47:51PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: [...] > > > So I decided to go back to kernel 2.2.20, which gives me a better > > performance so far. > > Please try 2.2.25, available in sarge/testing. I am

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:12:21PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > > > > The driver has been renamed, from my /etc/modules > > --- schnipp --- > > ariadne2 > > # starting with 2.4.23 use this instead: > > 8390 > > zorro8390 > > --- schnapp --- > > Again thanks for the hint. I will change my modul

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-30 Thread Peter Krummrich
Hi, please find my comments in the copy of your message below. On 29.08.2004, you wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: >> >> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga. >> >> The result was that apt did not find the package. So far, I had only the >> six CDs

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-30 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Peter Krummrich wrote: > Unfortunately, the scripts had problems with merging the lists of available > packeges. The following error messages were displayed: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing xtel (NewVersi

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga. > > The result was that apt did not find the package. So far, I had only the six > CDs from Woody R2 in my sources.list. I guessed that the package may be > present in the testing distr

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-29 Thread Peter Krummrich
Hi, please find my reply in the copy of your message below. On 27.08.2004, you wrote: > Moin, > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:32:24PM -0500, Dr. Peter Krummrich wrote: >> >> The description sounds good. One question that came to my mind - what can >> I do, if the new kernel does not boot, i.e. ho

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-29 Thread Finn Thain
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > ... As soon as you see new ones, in an hour or two, they are ready for > testing. Yep, penguin-19 likes the mac image. Cheers, -F

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:24:18PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > ... > > > > BTW testing, I just rebuilt 2.6.8 with Roman's patch. Uploading it to the > > usual page, but it will still take half an hour or so until they are all > > there. >

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-29 Thread Finn Thain
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > ... > > BTW testing, I just rebuilt 2.6.8 with Roman's patch. Uploading it to the > usual page, but it will still take half an hour or so until they are all > there. > > http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/kernel-image/ I'm afraid that t

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:04:41PM +0200, Storm66 wrote: > Hello, > > When using many kernels you will to have as many directories on the > amiga side, each with all things to boot : > kernel, System.map,amiboot and a script to launch. You don't need amiboot and System.map for every kernel you wa

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-28 Thread Storm66
Hello, When using many kernels you will to have as many directories on the amiga side, each with all things to boot : kernel, System.map,amiboot and a script to launch. With many directories you will choose easily what kernel to boot. On the Linux side all is clear, modules are stored in directori

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:32:24PM -0500, Dr. Peter Krummrich wrote: > > The description sounds good. One question that came to my mind - what can I > do, if the new kernel does not boot, i.e. how can I return to my old > kernel? Can I just boot the old one using amiboot and the old vmlinuz

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-27 Thread Dr. Peter Krummrich
Hi, thanks for the fast reply and the detailed description. Please find my comments in the copy of your message below. On 26.08.2004, you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easi

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-27 Thread Peter Krummrich
Hi, please find my answer in the text below. On 27.08.2004, you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: >> Hi, >> >> seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest >> way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody,

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-26 Thread Lance Tagliapietra
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > Hi, > > seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest > way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody, but > would be interested in testing 2.4.x or even 2.6.x kernels on my Amiga. Ho

Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-26 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote: > Hi, > > seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest > way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody, but > would be interested in testing 2.4.x or even 2.6.x kernels on my Amiga. Ho

Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga

2004-08-26 Thread Peter Krummrich
Hi, seeing all your discussing new kernels, I was wondering about the easiest way to switch between kernels. I am still using 2.2.20 from Woody, but would be interested in testing 2.4.x or even 2.6.x kernels on my Amiga. How can I get (load .deb archive?), unpack (use dselect or dpkg?) and install