Memtest problem / my kernel question

[Ben Pfaff]

Torgo Jr <agarris@voyager.net> writes:

> Ok, speaking of 2.4.x, will a machine running 2.2.x need 
> any additional stuff to run 2.4.x?  Any glibc upgrades or 
> anything, or can we just download 2.4.x and start the 
> compile process?

If you keep up-to-date with, say, Debian unstable, then you
probably already have all the needed versions of utilities.  Some
other things have changed; i.e., it looks like I may need to dump
and restore to get RAID to work since on-disk formats have
changed.

Read Documentation/Changes in the kernel tree before compiling.
Some important bits:

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System V shared memory is now implemented via a virtual filesystem.
You do not have to mount it to use it as long as you can live with the
default maxima for shared memory and segments.  If you wish to change
these variables, you have to mount it with the options nr_blocks
and / or nr_inodes.  POSIX shared memory is also now implemented via a
virtual filesystem.  If you want to use it, you'll need to mount the
filesystem.  The recommended mount location is /dev/shm, and adding the
following line to /etc/fstab should take care of things:

none            /dev/shm        shm             defaults        0 0

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The IP firewalling and NAT code has been replaced again.  The new
netfilter software (including ipfwadm and ipchains backwards-
compatible modules) is currently distributed separately.

If you have advanced network configuration needs, you should probably
consider using the network tools from ip-route2.

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The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to
enable it to operate over diverse media layers.  If you use PPP,
upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0b1.

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