Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
James Hosken wrote: > That's just what I needed, thanks. I have followed your > instructions and the kernel has installed OK and booted OK. But I > have lost the network. If worse comes to worse you can boot LinuxOLD to get your network back to be able to download new packages. In particular yo

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread James Hosken
That's just what I needed, thanks. I have followed your instructions and the kernel has installed OK and booted OK. But I have lost the network. I ran modconf and added the network drivers. But I don't know how to reconfigure the network for DHCP? Please can some one enlighten me. Regards James

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Bob Proulx
James Hosken wrote: > I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550 > graphics card. I assume this means you are running a linux 2.2 kernel then? That is, sounds like you had not previously customized your kernel? Just using a 2.2 and now want to install 2.4? In tha

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote: > Hi > > I need to upgrade woody's kernel to 2.4.x so that I can run my Matrox G550 > graphics card. > > Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send > me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org.

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-15 Thread Alec Berryman
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 20:08, James Hosken wrote: > Please can some one point me in the right direction of some instructions or send > me some. The Kernal howto has been removed from debian.org. Sorry for hitting the trigger early last time. I'm doing this now - check out http://www.holtmann.org/

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-26 Thread Ben Blout
>Pigeon wrote: >On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote: >> I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from >> 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This >> being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I though

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-26 Thread Darryl Barlow
Ben, You haven't given a lot of information but based on what you have I suspect your problem is initrd. 2.4.20 Debian images definitely use initrd, which means you need an initrd=/initrd.img line in lilo for that kernel, and a symlink initrd.img to /boot/initrd.img-2.4 ??? I know the 2.4.18

Re: woody kernel upgrade woes

2003-09-24 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:34:01PM -0700, Ben Blout wrote: > I am struggling with a kernel upgrade with a woody box, installed from > 3.0r0 CD. I installed with a 2.2.20 kernel, not sure what flavor. This > being the first time I did anything kernel related, I did what I thought > was the simples