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installing in slackware

Posted: 2. Apr 2009, 20:25
by mregmi
Hi,
We have have old slackware 10 in our linux lab. We want to install virtual box in in those systems. we chose virtualbox 1.6 because it was the oldest we can find. But we got some problems installing it. the problem came when we tried to install kernel module. while building it gives some error about not finding rules.make. we have kernel source files installed. the exact error is

make: execvp: /lib/modules/2.4.29/build/scripts/pathdown.sh: Permission denied
make KBUILD_VERBOSE=1 -C /lib/modules/2.4.29/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src SRCROOT=/tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.29'
make -C /tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.29/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i486 -DMODULE" MAKING_MODULES=1 modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src'
Makefile:262: /Rules.make: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Rules.make'. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src'
make[1]: *** [_mod_/tmp/dwn/vbox/vbox_1.6/install/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.29'
make: *** [vboxdrv] Error 2


can we get earlier version of vbox which installs on slackware 10 (kernel 2.4.29) or someversion near that era.
we cannot update our whole lab to newer linux because it will break too many apps.

regards