> I'm wondering how I might go about getting a 2.4 kernel right up front > when I'm installing a woody system. I need it for the network driver > it provides that doesn't work with 2.2. Is there a way to tweak the > CD somehow (debian-cd is how I make woody boot CD's) so it would load > a 2.4 kernel instead? I could just build a custom kernel that would > support most of my hardware so I wouldn't need to worry about drivers.
I didn't figure out an easy way to do this. But I did figure out a hard way :) ! I installed the system off the first woody CD, which put a 2.2.19 kernel onto the system. The network card doesn't work. Luckily, the first CD (as created with debian-cd) contains all the necessary packages (kernel-package, gcc, bin86, etc.) and sources (kernel-source-2.4.4) to build a 2.4 kernel, which does have my network card. Build, reboot, tweak the network settings a bit (since the boot configurator didn't ask me about the network stuff) and I'm good to go. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley 930 Koyukuk Drive System / Network Manager University of Alaska Fairbanks IARC -- Frontier Program Fairbanks, AK 99775 phone: 907-474-2689 fax: 907-474-2643 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GNUPG and PGP2 keys at my web site web: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle
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