Kernel installation on Debian

[Paul King]

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:39:33AM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> > THis is my third attempt at writing. I have attemtped to install the 2.6.8
> > kernel binaries (precompiled from Debian) on to my Debian system. When the
> > system attempts to write the /boot/initrd file, it gets an error "mkinitrd:
> > cpu: command not found", and I get no initrd.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to what part of the installation is causing the error?
> 
> Is initrd-tools and module-init-tools up to date before installing the
> kernel?  You seem to have over a thousand packages not up to date.
> 

The problem of the packages has since been fixed, although it was a bit tricky, 
as I started with a broken installation system. It now runs pretty clean, 
except for the "mkinitrd: cpu: command not found" error.

Sorry about the confusion, but I was expecting my email to propagate faster 
than it did. It seems that it takes 18-24 hours before I see my messages and 
other people's responses. All the while, messages intervene from other TLUGgers 
on other topics.

Hope that clears things up.

Paul King

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