Re: kernel 2.4.x and unstable/ Kernels
John Toon <john.toon@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Saturday 08 September 2001 10:05 am, Ross Burton wrote:
>
> Personally I would always recommend downloading yourself a vanilla 2.4.x
> kernel tarball from http://www.kernel.org. With kernels, this is one of the
> few areas where I think it is better to use the source tarballs rather than a
> debian package.
Why not just download the kernel-source package? Similar to the
vanilla ones, but usually with a few patches applied. The package
installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure
with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom
kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'.
I find it's much easier to manage and install kernel-images using
the packaging system.
> With the kenel sources, you can compile in _exactly_ the options you want,
> including devfs. If you'd rather, install the kernel sources via apt-get.
> Either way, use sources rather than a prebuilt image, since the image will
> include a mass of unused and unnessary drivers for your machine.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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