hello! i'm a fourth-yr comp. sci. student from the university of the phils. manila. i've just installed debian gnu/linux a month ago, and i'm very satisfied not to see another BSOD from windows again. After tinkering the pc, here are some of the stumbling blocks i encountered:
1.)i just upgraded (force-overwrite) libc6-2.1.3 and libdb2 that comes with the debian 2.2r3 with the testing packages of libc6-2.2.3 and libdb2-2.7. after that i recompiled kernel 2.4.7pre3. when i ran lilo, it flashed out a message "open /vmlinuz - no such file or directory" when i used whereis open - open was still there. I couldn't use lilo because of this. Then i made the mistake of uninstalling lilo, so when i rebooted the pc, LI instead of LILO: appeared (meaning LILO is damaged?). i'm triple-booting QNX4, Win98 and Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r3 on my system. i went to the point of ridding lilo from the mbr just to use an OS (Win98 then loadlin-ing the kernel). How do I fix this? 2.)Also, how do i install a kernel 2.4.x in potato? i hear that one needs to make kpkg the kernel source. can't i just copy the kernel image and install the sources (make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install) or do I really need to make kpkg the source just to make the system detect the modules? if so, how do i do it and what do i need? 3.)Do i need to upgrade pppd if i use kernel 2.4.x? wvdial won't connect - something like "invalid argument" reflects in the /var/logs/message file. what do i need to do? is there a better way to connect via dial-up than wvdial? if so, how? thank you, and god bless! Paolo Alexis D. Falcone University of the Philippines Manila __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
