Hallo Andrei, Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Ma, 10 iul 12, 15:08:52, Celejar wrote: > > And why do I care whether the kernel I compile locally for a > > specific machine is portable? > > Imagine a situation where due to whatever reason the kernel image of > your router machine gets corrupted, then you can just copy the file > from another machine ;)
Nothing prevents you from having an own and distro kernel installed side by side as long as you do not use the official version appendices. I usually have: martin@merkaba:~> ls -1 /boot/vmlinuz-3.* /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-3-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-3.4-trunk-amd64 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc4-tp520 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc5-tp520 /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-rc6-tp520+ Pick yourself which are the distro ones ;). I always have two kernel versions installed, should one break during an upgrade. That aside: The kernel of my ASUS WL-500g Premium is certainly not a Debian distro standard one which might not even fit into that 8 MB of internal flash. Its not a self compiled one either cause I didn´t yet manage to get one build but I trusted a developer who compiled one for the machine (Debwrt). For that machine I am not aware of any Debian kernel which would work out of the box and is also in main Debian repositories. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201207112057.50124.mar...@lichtvoll.de
