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Collin Starkweather wrote: |
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> This may seem a novice question, but can you build a 2.6 kernel and use |
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> it to boot a system built against 2.4? That is, to divide the move into |
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> two testable components, kernel and everything else, |
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This will probably bite you in the ass. Most notably, support for devfs was |
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dropped around 2.6.13, so unless you are managing a static /dev, you're going to |
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need udev. However, I'm not sure if the baselayout from that long ago had any |
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notion of udev or if you can even build udev while running a 2.4 kernel (this is |
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probably less of an issue). |
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Really, the "best" way to do this is to just do a new install on the second |
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drive. However, you might have some of the problems noted above, since you're |
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still running a 2.4 kernel while building a system intended for 2.6. |
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I guess that your only remaining "sane" option is to build a new install on a |
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"local" machine, and then rsync the entire thing over to the 2nd drive in your |
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existing machine. Then setup grub to boot from the install on the 2nd drive by |
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default. |
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