Hello everybody,


I'd like to ask for some .

I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd
like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing
the whole system.
(That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others).


About a year ago I could take a debian-installation, take the needed
files, and put them into a chroot on the old machines, and it worked.
Without any problem.

I wanted to do that again, with the current versions; but now I get an
error message "Kernel too old" (from ld-linux.so AFAIK).

[ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on
2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at
least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4.
backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ]

Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or
some easy way to recompile it?
I'd like to use the normal debian-packages, as they're updated
regularly -- the best solution for me would be to pin libc6 to some
version or repository, keeping support for the old 2.4, too.


? Any other ideas?
Thank you for all answers.

[Please keep me CCed.]


Regards,

Phil


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On Tuesday 07 August 2007 14:36, Ph. Marek wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> I'd like to ask for some .
>
> I have some machines running an old kernel (2.4.25, from Suse7.3). Now I'd
> like to get some newer software running on them, *without* re-installing
> the whole system.
> (That would be gnuplot, graphviz, subversion, fsvs, and some others).
>
>
> About a year ago I could take a debian-installation, take the needed
> files, and put them into a chroot on the old machines, and it worked.
> Without any problem.
>
> I wanted to do that again, with the current versions; but now I get an
> error message "Kernel too old" (from ld-linux.so AFAIK).
>
> [ I tried to use the sarge-packages; while the packages work on
> 2.4.25, they are really old versions, and unuseable. Eg. fsvs needs at
> least subversion 1.2, while sarge has only 1.1.4.
> backports.org has subversion 1.4.1 for sarge, but no libsvn0-dev. ]
>
> Is there an compiled libc6 that has support for older kernels, too, or
> some easy way to recompile it?
> I'd like to use the normal debian-packages, as they're updated
> regularly -- the best solution for me would be to pin libc6 to some
> version or repository, keeping support for the old 2.4, too.
>
>
> ? Any other ideas?
> Thank you for all answers.
>
> [Please keep me CCed.]
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil

Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after some
updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.

anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev is
1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.

I don't know if that's any .

Nigel.

btw. All my Debian installs, Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, started off as Woody
3.0r2, and is why I still have the 2.4.27 kernel installed on all of them.


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On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote:
....
> Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after
> some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.
>
> anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev
> is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
>
> I don't know if that's any .
Well, I'll try. I fear that some packages won't be as current as I'd like
them ... but lets see.


Thank you very much!


Regards,

Phil


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Hello Nigel,

On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote:
....
> Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after
> some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.
>
> anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev
> is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
>
> I don't know if that's any .
thank you very much.

I did a bootstrap of etch, copied that on the old machines, and it works!

Just have to sort out which files/libraries are *really* needed, to strip down
the amount of data.

*Thank you!*


Regards,

Phil


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Hello Nigel,

On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote:
....
> Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after
> some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.
>
> anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, libsvn-dev
> is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
>
> I don't know if that's any .
thank you very much.

I did a bootstrap of etch, copied that on the old machines, and it works!

Just have to sort out which files/libraries are *really* needed, to strip down
the amount of data.

*Thank you!*


Regards,

Phil


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On Wednesday 08 August 2007 17:27, Philipp Marek wrote:
> Hello Nigel,
>
> On Dienstag, 7. August 2007 Nigel Henry wrote:
> ...
>
> > Etch (stable) still boots the 2.4.27 kernel ok, but Lenny (testing) after
> > some updates a bit back, now gives me a "kernel to old" message.
> >
> > anyway, looking at synaptic on Etch, Subversion is 1.4.2dfsg1-2,
> > libsvn-dev is 1.4.2dfsg1-2, and libc6 is 2.3.6.ds1-13.
> >
> > I don't know if that's any .
>
> thank you very much.
>
> I did a bootstrap of etch, copied that on the old machines, and it works!
>
> Just have to sort out which files/libraries are *really* needed, to strip
> down the amount of data.
>
> *Thank you!*
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil

Hi Phil. I'm glad that my Etch info may have ed you to resolve your
problem.

All the best.

Nigel.


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