Re: Best way to move to 2.4 kernel?
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:23:44PM -0700, Randolph S. Kahle wrote:
> I am running an ASUS P2B-DS based MB with dual Pentium III 500 and 512 Meg RAM.
>
> I switched from RedHat to Debian about two months ago (on this and all
> of my other machines). I have been very pleased with Debian (2.2r3).
>
> It is becoming apparent that I should switch to the 2.4 kernel for
> better SMP support and it seems that things are stabilizing with the
> 2.4.5 release work.
>
> My question to the group is this. Which Debian release should I use -
> Potato with modification for 2.4 or Woody? I want as stable a machine
> configuration as I can get while settling on the 2.4 kernel.
I compiled the needed packages by hand and let the rest of the system
"stable".
You can check what you need with a look at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes when you've downloaded the 2.4.x
Sources.
Sven
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Subject: Re: woody hanging
> WRT subject.
> $ apt-get install viagra ;-)
[Karsten M. Self in debian-user]
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