Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-25 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) > /proc/cpuinfo identifies AMD K6(tm) 3D processor. The kernel I'm using > is 2.4.9 compiled for i386. When I tried the stock 2.4.9-k6 kernel-image > package or compiled the kernel for k6 myself, I was never able to get > the kernels to boot. I'm ru

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-24 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Mark Carroll wrote: On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) I have an AMD K6-II. "uname -a" identifies it as i586. (snip) That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right? /proc/cpuin

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel (2)

2001-10-24 Thread russirv
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:59:10PM -0400, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > Irvine Russell wrote: > > Thanks to nate and jerome. > > > > I followed your suggestions and have > > another problem. > > > > When I: > > > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 > > > > I get the following (I haven't

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Carroll
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: (snip) > I have an AMD K6-II. "uname -a" identifies it as i586. (snip) That may say more about what processor your kernel was compiled for than what processor it's actually running on. Does /proc/cpuinfo get it right? -- Mark

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Charles Baker wrote: What are the dividing lines between 586 - 686 etc? I obviously know that a 386 and 486 are just that, but what about the Pentiums, PIIs, PIIIs etc? Thanks. Here is what configure.help in kernel-source-2.4.9 package says: - "386" for the AMD/Cyri

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel (2)

2001-10-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Irvine Russell wrote: > Thanks to nate and jerome. > > I followed your suggestions and have > another problem. > > When I: > > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 > > I get the following (I haven't include > the whole text) > > Sorry but the following packages have unmet > dependencies: > >

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-23 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
Charles Baker wrote: What are the dividing lines between 586 - 686 etc? I obviously know that a 386 and 486 are just that, but what about the Pentiums, PIIs, PIIIs etc? Thanks. Here is what configure.help in kernel-source-2.4.9 package says: - "386" for the AMD/Cyrix/Intel 386DX/DXL/SL/SLC/

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-23 Thread Charles Baker
What are the dividing lines between 586 - 686 etc? I obviously know that a 386 and 486 are just that, but what about the Pentiums, PIIs, PIIIs etc? Thanks. --- Jerome Acks Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all > > > > I recently installed debian potato 2.2 > > and

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread nate
said: > However when all was finished it seems that only > that only 9 packages were upgraded and none were > newly installed. last i remember, apt did NOT upgrade kernels automatically. especially a 2.2 to a 2.4 that would be a bad thing to do automatically. you have to specifically tell it to

Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all I recently installed debian potato 2.2 and quickly discovered that I would need to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could get the computers network card working. I read through the mailing list archives and decided to do the following. 1, add the followin

problems installing 2.4 kernel

2001-10-22 Thread irvine
Hello all I recently installed debian potato 2.2 and quickly discovered that I would need to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could get the computers network card working. I read through the mailing list archives and decided to do the following. 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: