Debian Rawks

[vhg119]

yes it does.. i wouldnt know, because i havent finished setting it up!

so far i only have the base system setup.
it has network support and it boots up.
There's no X or any of that good stuff.

I'm trying to install the newest kernel 2.4.22.
the problem i'm having is that it keeps complaining that i dont have ncurses installed to do a make menuconfig.

how would i get that installed.

my system: Athon tbird 1ghz, realtek NIC, Nvidia vid card, and an PROMISE ATA100 card that is giving trouble, (the reason i want to recompile the kernel)

if you have the same setup.. can you please email me your configuration file... pleasse.
unless i can get this ncurses thing fixed. because using just make config.. well.. sux.

i dont wanna go back to REDHAT..

[deathadder]

to get menuconfig to run you need to:

apt-get install tk8.2 make gcc bin86 kernel-package libc6-dev libncurses5-dev

the last one, libncurses5-dev install s ncurses

then just do a menuconfig in /usr/src/linux

just incase you dont know once you've finished with the kernel config and have exited menu config you can do it the make make_modules etc or just

make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg -revision=786:kernel2.4.22 kernel_image

then cd .. so your in /usr/src/
dpkg -i kernel2.4.22.deb (or what ever the name of the deb is)

Have a read of this on Osnews.com, its helped me so much
The Very Verbose Guide to Updating and Compiling Your Debian Kernel (http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2949)

[vhg119]

thank you!!
that worked.

[deathadder]

no problem, and good luck with the rest of the debian setup