Rob Owens wrote:
> Is it possible to build only the kernel and initrd, without building an
> entire system?
not really, as one cannot know what the target system has installed or
is configured for. if you know it, you would need to replicate that very
system - which is basically the same as if you
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 06:29:24AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > Would it suffice to copy vmlinuz and initrd from a newly-built image
> > into my existing one? (and update the appropriate syslinux files) Or
> > is there more to it than that?
>
> that should do it. but note
Rob Owens wrote:
> Would it suffice to copy vmlinuz and initrd from a newly-built image
> into my existing one? (and update the appropriate syslinux files) Or
> is there more to it than that?
that should do it. but note that the live system does behave different
wrt/ kernel updates than regular
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:33:11AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > What's the proper way to handle this?
>
> as i already said before: kernel selection/inclusion needs to be done at
> build time.
>
> why? because vmlinuz and initrd that are used to boot are in the binary
> ima
Rob Owens wrote:
> What's the proper way to handle this?
as i already said before: kernel selection/inclusion needs to be done at
build time.
why? because vmlinuz and initrd that are used to boot are in the binary
image, not in the filesystem.
--
Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse
I attempted to upgrade my live system (persistent), including a kernel upgrade.
I
got basically the same message as what's shown below. Note that I'm not
attempting
to use a kernel from backports.org this time, but a standard Debian kernel.
What's the proper way to handle this?
-Rob
On Fr
Rob Owens wrote:
> In order to get a wireless card working, I need to install a kernel from
> lenny backports.
lenny backports as available from backports.org is not suitable for
debian-live (missing modules).
> Is there any reason not to do this on a live system?
because it's useless? kernel se
