On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Debian was just recommended to me yesterday as being very mature and
> well worth trying by a wild eyed individual wearing a long robe and
> carrying a staff. How easy is it to go 2.2 with Debian? SuSE?
> Caldera? Are any besides Slackware in the "make the kernel you like,
> pop it in /vmlinuz, run lilo, reboot" category?
Hey, I don't carry a staff! :) (Actually, I was carrying an umbrella today
-- ick, Houston weather.) Debian is pretty much 2.2-ready, as far as I
can tell. (There's a discussion on debian-devel about this right now, and
2.2pre6 is what I run on my <Debian 2.1> laptop.) Recompiling kernels on
Debian can be done manually, as you describe (kernel's typically in
/vmlinuz), or can involve the "kernel-package" debian package, where you
do "make-kpkg kernel_image" in the kernel source tree. This makes you a
.deb of your custom kernel, which means you then run "dpkg --install
<kernel>.deb" and away you go to reboot. That's all.
Andy
PS I'm not a big fan of the whole robe thing either, but you may get me on
wild-eyed. :)
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