reassign 337780 installation-guide thanks On Sunday 06 November 2005 14:57, maximilian attems wrote: > * the chapter is out of date (not referring to the new common package). I have updated that. The new common package is now referred to for those arches that use the common packaging and have a 2.6 kernel as default. See for example: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch08s05.html > * there are lots of other references on the topic: > - the debian-reference has an chapter about howto compile a new kernel > for your debian box Which is just as outdated... > - the "Debian Linux Kernel Handbook" has lots of info on latest builds > worked on by mh with input by trave11er and dilinger. In which the sections relevant for end-users are still "to be contributed"... I've added a link to the handbook though. > if you consider aboves point not valid, feel free to close it away. > i just stumbled upon it today at a friends place who read this manual > and had shoot himself into the foot with a strange kernel .config. If the kernel handbook fleshes out a bit more _and_ gets translated, I agree this bit could be dropped. For now I feel the very basic introduction it gives is not entirely out of place. Keeping the bug report open as a reminder. Cheers, FJP
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