Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-26 Thread John Summerfield
David Sanders wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 06:18 am, John Summerfield wrote: David Sanders wrote: 10. Reboot and have fun This results in a broken system. Broken in that it will probably not run with the 2.6 kernel, though the 2.2 kernel ought still work. Works for me... You wi

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-26 Thread David Sanders
On Sunday 25 July 2004 06:18 am, John Summerfield wrote: > David Sanders wrote: > >10. Reboot and have fun > > This results in a broken system. Broken in that it will probably not run > with the 2.6 kernel, though the 2.2 kernel ought still work. Works for me... You will learn a lot more about Linu

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Akkermans wrote: Hi erveryone, I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought that when I installed the newest kernel I was up

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Juha Siltala
On 2004-07-25, Paul Akkermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi erveryone, > > I have read al suggestions and advice on how to install my kernel (thanks a > lot). But the thing is, that I have a school assignment in evaluating a > linux kernel. I must admit that I am new to linux and so I thought tha

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Paul Akkermans
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 8:39 PM Subject: Re: question about patching my kernel > On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: > > uname -a > > Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 E

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Peter O wrote: Hi everone, Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
ROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 1:20 PM Subject: Re: question about patching my kernel Paul Akkermans wrote: Paul Hi everone, Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:20, John Summerfield wrote: for most people, whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a mistake. Could you please elaborate on this? I've always thought that learning the most generic way of handling linux kernels

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
David Sanders wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: uname -a Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown cat /etc/debian_version 3.0 The basic procedure. Ask if you have any questions. 1. Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-25 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Saturday 24 July 2004 14:20, John Summerfield wrote: > for most > people, whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a > mistake. Could you please elaborate on this? I've always thought that learning the most generic way of handling linux kernels is more valuable than sticking

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread David Sanders
On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: > uname -a > Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown > > cat /etc/debian_version > 3.0 The basic procedure. Ask if you have any questions. 1. Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/http://www.ke

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello (please don't top post, and please wrap at your lines at 70-76 characters) Paul Akkermans (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: >> Paul Akkermans wrote: >>> >>> Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a >>> friend. When I was installing Debian I saw

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread Peter O
> Hi everone, > > Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. > When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on > the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that > version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But the

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread Paul Akkermans
:20 PM Subject: Re: question about patching my kernel > Paul Akkermans wrote: > Paul > > >Hi everone, > > > >Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the cd-rom was v

Re: question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Akkermans wrote: Paul Hi everone, Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is ava

question about patching my kernel

2004-07-24 Thread Paul Akkermans
Hi everone,   Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend. When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But the pro