[Preston] Hello

Andrew King preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Jan 11 10:08:01 2003


Chris wrote:
> is this the same thread i started the other week? lol.Hi all, im back, i
> had a major system crash the other day and have been too busy at college
> and work to finish getting everything installed again. but i'm finally
> finished, updated just about evertything i think. got kernel 2.4.20
> again and still had the problem with the drivers, so i got the latest
> stable pre-patch and everything works fine. btw, are there any other
> users out there who actually abide by the debian way and use make-kpkg
> to make their kernel debs and install ? I had a problem making when i
> tried using it, but build went fine when i built normally, odd.

I ran into problems with that too (2.4.18). IIRC it was going wrong and 
giving some kind of an error while it was going on compiling everything, 
but just doing the normal method with the same options was fine. Gave up 
after about three goes. Maybe this is a common problem worth looking into.

Andrew