Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Krzys Majewski wrote: There is an official debian way to recompile kernels, but I don't bother.. download the kernel source from debian.org or kernel.org Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux.

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When installed the archive gets put into Is this anything like RedHat's

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 08:53:46AM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn Yarbrough wrote: Use the 'kernel-source' packages and you will get extra features and bugfixes patched in by Debian which are not in stock Linux. For example 'kernel-source-2.2.18pre21'. When

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official kernel source? Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the nature of a patch. For the most part patches are created to fix bugs that were unknown when the

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Shawn Yarbrough
Krzys Majewski wrote: OK, so these are official kernel.org patches then? Or something else? Here is the README.Debian file from kernel-source-2.2.18pre21: (yes it looks like somebody forgot to update the title) kernel-source-2.2.17 for DEBIAN --- These patches

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread Krzys Majewski
Well, OK.. I guess *somebody* has to patch the kernels, so it may as well be the people who sell them, i.e. distribution vendors like Debian and RedHat.. as long as the patches aren't forking the kernel source tree, official or effective, I'm happy - chris On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Shawn

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-24 Thread ktb
On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 12:52:17PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If these Debian patches are so great, why aren't they in the official kernel source? Because the patches didn't exist when 2.2 was released. That is the nature of a patch. For the

how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-23 Thread Mike Egglestone
Hi all... I'm having a tough time finding info on how to edit the kernel so I can add transparent_proxy support. Isn't there some utility to do this? I'm running potato If someone could help me out.. that would be great!! Thanks Mike

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-23 Thread Chris Howells
From: Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm having a tough time finding info on how to edit the kernel so I can add transparent_proxy support. Isn't there some utility to do this? You want to recompile the kernel with transparent_proxy? If so, see

Re: how to edit the kernel....make menuconfig???

2001-03-23 Thread Krzys Majewski
There is an official debian way to recompile kernels, but I don't bother.. download the kernel source from debian.org or kernel.org (avoid minor versions which are not divisible by 2, like 2.1.* or 2.3.*) read the README in /usr/src/linux, and you're go. Basically make menuconfig