From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266931AbTGOJNQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:13:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266939AbTGOJNP (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:13:15 -0400 Received: from f17.mail.ru ([194.67.57.47]:61965 "EHLO f17.mail.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266931AbTGOJNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 05:13:14 -0400 From: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Andrey Borzenkov=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= To: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Romano Giannetti=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Mark Watts=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= Subject: Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel.... Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 X-Originating-IP: [212.248.25.26] Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:27:58 +0400 Reply-To: =?koi8-r?Q?=22?=Andrey Borzenkov=?koi8-r?Q?=22=20?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Folks, if you want to be on bleeding edge with Mandrake you really have to read cooker :)) I have put a set of support SRPMs for Mandrake 9.1 on http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/ They currently include initscripts, mkinitrd, module-init-tools and modultils. I had devfsd and gkrellm as well but now they are incorporated into mainstream, just fetch them from cooker. Using these packages I freely switch between 2.4 and 2.6 on the same Mandrake 9.1 based box. Actually the reason I made them was exactly this - I needed abililty to work normally on supermount for 2.6 :) They are fully modules-enabled, actually my config is basically Mandrake default with obvious 2.6 modifications (I made it more and more modular with the time), initrd, devfs etc are supported. module-init-tools will try to build modprobe.conf from your modules.conf and include suitable /etc/modprobe.devfs; also I have packaged default module aliases. I really need feedback with them - they work for me but other people had issues with module autoloading. I will update them every now and then for new Mandrake packages. regards -andrey >On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:17:07PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> Sure - I'm trying it on Mandrake 9.1 >> >> I've already had fun with the module_init_tools from >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/ >> >> Basically after doing the ./configure --prefix=/ && make moveold, I was left >> with a bunch of dangling symlinks in /sbin >> >> I've since grabed the src.rpm from here: >> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/SRPMS/ >> and that seems to be behaving a bit more (although I haven't rebooted yet :) >> >> Everything else is from a standard Mandrake 9.1 install, so I'm using gcc >> 3.2.2 and associated gubbins. >> > I'm also interested (I have a mdk 9.1 installed, too), so please keep us > informed. I would like to test 2.6, but I have to do real work too, so I > need the ability to switch back safely to a 2.4 kernel... so if you succeed, > please share! Thanks a lot!