Debian 2.2r3 potato - linux core release?
It appears that the potato release (2.2r3) uses the Linux kernel version
2.2.19pre17. However, I can only seem to find kernel headers for 2.2.18 or
2.2.19 on the release CD. This appears to mean that to install any modules
without error messages (I need them for my video chipset & my [lin]modem) I
have had to recompile the kernel. I have these questions:
1. Have I done the right thing here, or is there a way I missed to add
modules without having to recompile the kernel?
2. Recompiling the kernel with different headers concerns me. I chose potato
as the 'stable' release. But now I wonder if that stability is being
retained? It seems to me that the 'best stable' kernel ought to have been
supplied, so moving to 2.2.18 or 2.2.19 should theoretically expose me
either to unfixed bugs or to a less stable kernel respectively. Where is the
flaw in this logic?
3. Assuming I do need to recompile the kernel, and 2.2.19pre17 headers are
not on the CD, should I be using 2.2.19 or 2.2.18 headers?
I am using the kernel source from the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2.r3 "potato" -
Official i386 binary-1 (20010427) CD. I burned the CD myself from an image
created as per instuctions on www.debian.org. I checked that the md5
checksum of the image was correct before burning.
Thanks.
Roger Broadbent
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