On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 10:24, Fred Whipple wrote: > I see that Debian 3.0r2 includes a nicely aged (like fine cheese) Linux > 2.2 kernel. While 2.2 is the default, Debian 3.0 includes the 2.4 kernel. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=kernel-image-2.4&searchon=names&subword=1&case=insensitive&version=stable&release=all It's available right from the installer - just type "bf24" at boot. > Now I imagine it's > not so difficult to simply compile a recent 2.4 (2.5?) kernel and go > from there. If you want to run 2.6, unofficial backports of the 2.6 kernel are available from backports.org. http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/woody/kernel-2.6/binary-i386/ And of course, you can compile your own. > Finally, while I'm messing around with the kernel, I'd have to include > support for ext3fs. ... > From that point, how > complicated is it to get the rest of the tools to play nicely with > ext3fs? I'd imagine that a large set of tools would need to be > replaced, including e2fsck, mount, umount, etc. It's not complicated at all - Debian 3.0 includes ext3 and all its utilities right out of the box. The installer allows you to format using ext3 or ext2. - Jon -- jon@tgpsolutions.com Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com
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