Re: kernel 2.4.19 and inspiron 2600

[Arash Bijanzadeh <a.bijanzadeh@linuxiran.org>]

On Tuesday 24 September 2002 18:06, Derek Broughton wrote:
> From: <ronin2@bellatlantic.net>
>
> > Most distributions now compile filesystem support as modules. An initrd
> > image contains those modules; they must be loaded and initialized before
> > you can mount the root filesystem.
> >
> > You have two alternatives:
> >  1. Make an initrd image, and configure your boot loader to use it.
> >  2. Compile support for the root filesystem into the kernel instead of as
> > a module. (This is easier, so it's what I do.)
>
> It really isn't easier if you used make-kpkg to make the kernel - make-kpkg
> builds the initrd image for you (though I vaguely recall there was an
> initrd.conf setup somewhere, long ago - see mkinitrd).  Of course, if you
> don't use make-kpkg, then you're not interested in doing things the easy
> way
>
> :-)
I have downloaded the source from kernel.org , can you tell me how can I do 
it? And remember that I have tried to install it with the most easiest way 
(apt-get) but it didn't worked!
:-)