Re: two questions

[Frank Zimmermann <F.Zimmermann@bham.ac.uk>]

GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote:
> 
> Hi, this is my first message to the list.
> I had installed debian potato 2.2 and I'm new to debian.
> The questions are: 
> - the kernel version is 2.2.17, but I want to compile 2.4.5. I have
> the tar.bz2 kernel file, but I don't know which packages I need to
> compile the kernel. Where can I find the list of packages needed to
> do it?
> 
> thanks, and sorry for my english.
> 
There should be a Readme file (or something like this), in the
directory where you unpacked the kernel sources, that tells you
about the packages you'll need. 
If you study the archives of this list you'll find some links to
debian packages of everything you need to run kernel 2.4.x.

Frank