Re: getting alternate kernels
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:19:15PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> This is a really dumb newbie question.
>
> I'm experienced with Linux (slackware) but not much at all with debian.
>
> In response to my question in IP Masquerading on a Mac, Adam Powell said to
> get a 2.4 kernel out of sid.
>
> How do I do that?
>
> I know how to use dselect to install and remove packages from my machine.
> But I don't know how to configure things to get packages out of different
> releases.
>
> I would actually enjoy compiling kernels myself, and do it all the time with
>
> SlackWare, but my understand is that debian has it's own concept of what
> kernel source is (to work with apt) and also the powerpc kernels that are
> best to use are not what I'd get from kernel.org.
>
This is a debian-user question, and probably has been answered there. You
edit your apt sources.list to change the release. Here's a couple of links.
lynx /usr/share/doc/HTML/debian/index.html
<LI><a href="http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/AptHelp";>Apt Help</a>
> So a further question is, if I want to compile a 2.4 kernel on a Mac, how do
> I use dselect to get it.
>
> Mike
> crawford@goingware.com
>
>
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