I would like to hear some more details from the maintainer(s)... I've needed to install 'locales' and 'i18n' during this process.
I have several machines which are in this state, and I've broken the equivelent number, trying this. I just waiting for woody to become 'stable'. Paul >>> Jameson wrote: All suggestions for using kernel 2.4 mention upgrading to modutils in either woody or sid, for modutils version 2.3.22 or 2.3.23. However, these have the dependency Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) Since I largely keep a potato distribution, I use libc6 version libc6_2.1.3-13 so an upgrade would require upgrading to a woody libc6 version. This flashes a WARNING to me, since libc is very foundational; indeed, a few Debian distributions back, most distribution upgrades failed because of libc changes. Does an upgrade of libc6 from version 2.1.3 to 2.1.97 largely work? But more, I no longer see libc6 version 2.1.97, so I must go all the way to libc6 version libc6_2.2-5 in woody. Oh my, I have heard people having problems with libc6 version 2.2: are there problems upgrading to libc6_2.2? Perhaps my best solution would compile modutils version myself. Besides, I now notice that the kernel source linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 document .../Documentation/Changes has upped the modutils version requirement from 2.3.15 (in linux-2.4.0-test8) to modutils version 2.4.0 (in linux-2.4.0) which appears nowhere, not even in the .../pool/* directories.