Paul wrote:

a) Upgrade modutils to the latest version, and, b) Upgrade lilo also. and raph@panache.demon.co.uk wrote: To build 2.4.x udner 2.2 you will have to upgrade lots of things, including gcc, modutils. binutils, libraries and possibly others. the easy way to do it is to build a complete new system in a spare partition; don't try to upgrade in place - you may screw up your working system. Thanks for this advice. My system has only a dialup modem, so the last update I did was from the woody cdrom. I'll also read up on debian kernel packages as advised on IRC last week. Will let you know if I have any success, hoping to have lots of nice home-computer time this weekend :-) Jen