Re: kernel 2.2.0
On 28 Jan 1999q, stephen.p.ryan@dartmouth.edu wrote:
> On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade
> > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg
> > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :(
> >
> >
> > Anthony
> >
> >
>
> I'm afraid that enough has changed that you'd have a 12 Meg patch.
> OTOH, rumor on the developer list has it that the 2.2 kernel source
> will be included in slink, so it should be available if you get a slink
> cd (if you can wait that long :-)
>
> --
> Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
> Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
>
>
I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed
version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you
decompress this?
Anthony
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