Some problems that I have had and how I have solved them :
Self compiled Linux-2.4.26 doesn't mount / over NFS :
When I had compiled my own Linux-2.4.26 kernel and rebooted my javastation things stopped working because this new kernel doesn't mount / over NFS. Strange, because with pre-compiled 2.4.2 and 2.4.18 kernels that I had downloaded, everything worked without problems.
For some reason this newer kernel doesn't like "root=nfs". Instead of it, it wants "root=/dev/nfs".
So, I have downloaded the source of PROLL and changed the following line in ./krups/openprom.c
- static char arg_nfsroot[] = "ip=bootp root=nfs";
- static char arg_nfsroot[] = "ip=bootp root=/dev/nfs";
Then I have recompiled PROLL (using gcc-2.95 because gcc-3.3 give some errors). With this PROLL I can boot my 2.4.26-kernel without problems :-D
If you like, you can download this patched PROLL here
Upgrading from Debian Woody to Debian Sid failed
When I tried to upgrade Debian Woody to Debian Sid, this failed. dpkg 'died' everytime. The problem is dat dpkg tries to read the file /var/lib/dpkg/available completely in memory. Because the javastation didn't have much memory and /var/lib/dpkg/available was about 11Mb, dpkg didn't have enough memory to do his job
I have solved this by typing :rm /var/lib/dpkg/available touch /var/lib/dpkg/available
Of course, another solution is to first setup swap over TCP to avoid this problem.
