[plug] updating woody to 2.4.20

[Chris Caston]

I wonder though if I took the pre-compiled k7 kernel package out of sid
would it work on Woody?

regards,

Chris

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:39, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:30:47PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Maybe I did something wrong but... (excellent way to start a post)
> > 
> > After updating to 2.4.20 under Woody none of my devices worked and I had
> > no modules that I could install. Perhaps I just configured it wrongly or
> > I need to find all the modules for this kernel and install them.
> 
> The quick way, is to grab the package kernel-source-2.4.20 out of
> sid and install it (it should install under woody). Extract the tbz2
> in /usr/src, copy your current .config file into it, (eg cp
> /boot/config-2.4.18-bf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/.config).
> 
> Run make oldconfig from within and probably answer no the new
> questions that come up (if you didn't want them before, you won't
> miss them now :)
> 
> Then type the magic command and start chanting.
> make-kpkg --initrd --root-cmd fakeroot kernel-image
> 
> And within minutes (or hours :) you'll have a new shiny
> kernel-image-2.4.20_i386.deb of some sort sitting in /usr/src, that
> has all the same modules and settings as your previous kernel.
> 
> Install and cross your fingers! Installing it should update the
> symlinks /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old which lilo by default chooses.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> -- 
>  Bernard Blackham 
>  bernard at blackham dot com dot au
> 
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