slackware 10.2 woes

Ben Duncan bns
Wed Nov 30 16:32:55 PST 2005


If you can boot up enuff (off the CD at least) then install the 2nd CD and go to
the kernel 2.6.13 then you can do a

upgradepkg --install-new <the 2.6.3 libraries>.tgz


Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, A. Khattri wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you're not a slackware user then where are you getting these
>>>suggestions on how to fix an explicitly slackware problem?
>>
>>Assuming you have the source, installing modules for a kernel does not
>>require any special tools or utilities on ANY distro.
>>
>>You mentioned working "under the hood" so I posted an "under the hood"
>>answer. If you didn't find a binary package to fix it, my answer could
>>have been used to build those "manually".
> 
> 
> you're missing the point.  obviously i could have built the modules
> (although the default install fails to provide the kernel source for the
> kernel, so i'd be similarly screwed trying to do that).  but thanks
> anyway.
> 
> 

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