Re: Migration to linux-2.6.8 from linux-2.4.26

From: Rahul Karnik
Date: Fri Sep 24 2004 - 12:41:01 EST


> > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:10:23 -0400 (EDT), Johnson, Richard
> I don't know how it 'knew' that I had proviously copied
> all the modutil utilities to *.old before installing the
> new ones. In any event, it would certainly never find
> them at "./filename.old". They would have to be un
> /sbin or /usr/sbin or /usr/local/something, never in
> the current directory.

Aha, there's the problem. module-init-tools does a copy of the old
tools itself and delegates to the old tools for 2.4 kernels. So to fix
your problem, install modutils and the install module-init-tools over
it. See the README file that comes with module-init-tools for further
info.

Thanks,
Rahul
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