-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I've compiled 2.4.0 on my potato firewall, and it seems to be booting > nicely. However, there seems to be some issues with the location of the > kernel modules. I'm sure that there are other issues like the support for > netfilter and the reconfiguration of the ipmasq package for that. The modutils and iptables packages in unstable compile nicely on Debian potato. I have a slightly old modutils compiled from unstable sources at http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/modutils_2.3.22-1_i386.deb. There is also a iptables .deb for potato at http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/iptables_1.1.2-1.0_i386.deb. The ipmasq package is obsolete for kernel 2.4.0 - the iptables command takes the place of the kernel 2.2 ipchains and ipmasqadm commands. > Is there anybody that has taken the task of figuring out everything that > needs to be done in order to support kernel 2.4.0 on potato? Right off the top of my head: * modutils * compile and install iptables if you're going to do firewalling * compile and install devfsd from unstable if you're going to use devfs * ppp will probably need to be upgraded - definitely upgrade if you plan on using the new multilink mechanism * There's a shmfs filesystem that needs to be mounted someplace for shm segments to work. Put shm /var/shm shm defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstab and reboot. Be sure that /var/shm exists, obviously. The /var/shm is arbitrary, btw - a lot of people like to put this filesystem under /dev/shm. * some drivers were rewritten (and renamed) for 2.4.x (eg the rtl8139 driver is now 8139too) so be sure to double check it all before you reboot that server that's 3000 miles away in a co-location facility :) * if you use the kernel-level NFS server you may need to upgrade the nfs-utils package, but I've never needed to. I'm positive I'm missing something, though :) - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6W2Yb/ZTSZFDeHPwRAjgsAJ9CVhIoxLZJWUMUn+DqsXM9UytrxgCfQTdn v3Rw/EtdnZFVt+OOIaKg8Ms= =wgzC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
