Installing kernel-image-2.6-686

Tue Jun 15 08:50:40 CEST 2004

Well I have managed to get the 2.4 kernel I need installed.  I was trying to install the wrong kernel with addpackage... needed to have simply kernel-image-2.4-686 (I had ...2.4.26-2-686, which does not exist... but is what you get...)
However I would like to install a couple of machines with 2.6 kernel so we can compare the performance between 2.4 and 2.6, as apparently they changed some of the threading implementation to make it better (they hope...).  So if you have any tips for me, I would appreciate it.

Thanks 
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de [mailto:owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Tony F. White
Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2004 08:59
To: 'Thomas Lange'
Cc: 'linux-fai'
Subject: RE: Installing kernel-image-2.6-686

Hello Thomas,

Sorry about the HTML email (.

No we are just wanting to use it for the installed system's.
The main thing we are wanting is to be able to use LVS and the newer kernels come pre-patched (2.4.23+ & 2.6.+).
I managed to get one server installed with 2.4.26-2-686, which has the required module(s) but I have not been able to do it again.  I think what I did was before it did the addpackage line in the S01 script I did an fcopy of the apt.conf and sources.list.  But if I do that I cannot get one of our own private packages to install automatically...
Currently I have FAI installing 2.4.26-1-686, not sure why it is not installing -2-, unfortunately the kernel does not seem to have the required patch.  I might try putting the fcopy lines back in and seeing what happens...

If anyone has some ideas I would appreciate hearing them...

Thx.
Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de [mailto:owner-linux-fai at rrz.uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Thomas Lange
Sent: Monday, 14 June 2004 20:16
To: Tony F. White
Cc: linux-fai
Subject: Re: Installing kernel-image-2.6-686

>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:12:16 +1000, "Tony F. White" <tony at worldlingo.com> said:

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First of all, NO HTML MAILS !!! Please disable this when posting to
this list!

    > I was wondering if any of you folks could perhaps point me in the right direction on how use FAI to install

    > kernel-image-2.6-686 (http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/kernel-image-2.6-686)
Do you want to use a 2.6 during installation or only for the new
installed system? 

Have a look at 

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@rrz.uni-koeln.de/msg01750.html

-- 
regards Thomas