On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 21:18 GMT, Mark Healey penned: > > With Redhat moving towards their Fedora scheme I figure that a move to > Debian is the best way to avoid any more surprises from another > comercial vendor. I've also noticed that most distros that are built > upon another are built upon Debian, so it must be pretty good. > > Anyway I believe I should get kernel version 2.4.22. That's the > latest stable one, right?
I'm running 2.4.21, so I'm guessing 2.4.22 would be sufficiently recent =) > Is there a .deb package (and where is it) or should I just get the > .tar.bz2 one from kernel.org? Yup. Um, let's see. I would normally go to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search from there, but it's giving me a "malformed query" error. What I normally do is download the kernel-source package, and that puts all the code in /usr/src. Of course, that method isn't terribly helpful to you at the moment. You could get the kernel.org stuff if you want; my impression is that debian maintainers add their own useful patches and whatnot on top of that, but I know I've run a custom-built kernel from kernel.org on a debian system in the past without trouble. > I did find a HOWTO but it is pretty redhat centric and assumes that > one has X running. My X doesn't work, I'm sure I'll be posting about > that later. > > Is there a good clear debian centered HOWTO and where is it? Um. I know there are some debian-specific tools to make building a kernel easier, but I am lazy and still do things the way I learned to do them lo these many years ago. For one thing, the stock debian kernels use initrd, so I assume the debian tools create a kernel that uses initrd (but I don't know that for sure). I did just find this by googling on "debian kernel build": http://docs.linux.cz/debian-faq/debian-faq-11.html > BTW. Knoppix kicks ass. Indeed =) -- monique PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]