On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:41:17 +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a blank hard > disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine. > > I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing and no longer > manage to compile the same sources.
Known problem with the 2.4.16 kernel source. Older versions of binutils accepted what it did, newer ones don't. Either enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG or patch your kernel sources to 2.4.17-rc1. HTH, Ray -- "Perhaps they spent some of the time writing the patent application. That task was surely harder than thinking of the technique." RMS on Amazon's 1-Click(R) patent, http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=13652