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Re: 2.2 kernels on slink






On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:18:25 +0200
> To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
> From: Gaal Yahas <gaal@forum2.org>
> Reply-To: gaal@forum2.org
> Subject: 2.2 kernels on slink
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've decided to give Debian a try and installed slink on one of the
> machines available to me. For various reasons I need a modern kernel
> and glibc (2.1) system, though, and though I looked a while for info
> about this, didn't find how to do this gracefully. I don't mind
> installing slightly less stable packages (that is, out of slink) but
> I probalby don't need bleeding edge kernels.

slink is glibc 2.0 nased system. You will have to upgrade 40% of system to
potato. find a fast link to the world, this is not a modem task...

if you are in doubt 'bout belleding edge, you probably don't want to have.
I did install 2.3, and  am happy with it (performanc went up for apache
server, which is important part of my system)

> 
> Can I install several packages from potato? Will I need to upgrade
> all my pacakges? How can I let dselect do most of the work? I can trust
> it not to break dependencies, right?

right. but do not use dselect, use apt instead.

> 
> Any special recommendations? Personal success stories? Warnings?
> Pointers to such information by other people?

First, install recent version of apt. then configure it to install from
net. Do not bother with manual download ofg packages, it will hurt to do (I
tried once, just belive me and _do not_) Then:

apt-get update
apt-get install kernel-source<your version>

apt will be your frined during the rest of process...

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     Omer Mussaev / tel 051308214 / http://www.linuxlizard.de/omer
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