Ubuntu Stability

[Martin Schmitz]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> 1.) open a terminal and type the lines below each one followed by ENTER
>> 2.) sudo su - (followed by your password)
>> 3.) apt-get install linux-source-2.6.8.1 build-essential kernel-package
>> 4.) cd /usr/src
>> 5.) tar xjf linux-source-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2
>> 6.) cd linux-source-2.6.8.1
>> 7.) cp /boot/config-2.6.8.1* .config
>> 8.) make -j bzImage
>> 9.) If it's done (you see your prompt again) send us the last 20 or so
>>     lines of output.
> 
> Okay, here we go. I have spent 2 hours downloading the packages (64Kbps
> is really slow...), and it doesn't seem to work. The 'make' aborts after
> only a few seconds. Please see below, I copied the entire output. Look
> at the bottom, it seems that it aborted because of the
> 'SMP' (multiprocessing) thing. But I don't know why.... I don't have a
> dual-cpu board (I wish I had, though ! ;o).

Ups. I did assume that your running kernel is one of the
linux-image-2.6.8.1 ones. Or maybe you have more than one kernels
installed. Anyway, I sent you the default .config file of
linux-image-2.6.8.1-k7 by private mail which should do it without asking
any questions.

Martin