Installing potato and pcmcia on a laptop

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie@tbird2.homelan>]

The installation goes ok, and I install the kernel-package so I can rebuild the kernel. 
A couple of questions first, that I know have cropped up in the past on the list, 
but I've never fully understood the setup.

Q) My CD set is 2.2 r3, with kernel 2.2.19pre17. 
What is the difference between kernel 2.2.19pre17 and 2.2.19?

Q) Which kernel is best to install on a laptop? 
Is it the -compact one that I see when I browse dselect?

I notice there are several pcmcia-modules packages in dselect, but none for 2.2.19pre17. 
I've downloaded the pcmcia source and untarred it into /usr/src/modules. 
I've gone through the make config ; make all ; make install process, and it seems fine. 
I've reconfigured the kernel using make-kpkg clean ; make xconfig and a line like:

vaiop:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.5 kernel_image modules_image

This completes successfully. I've read /usr/share/doc/pcmcia-cs/FAQ.Debian.gz and followed 
the instructions there, running:

     debian/rules binary-modules

and that seemed to go ok, finishing with:

> dpkg-deb --build debian/tmp-modules '.'/..
> dpkg-deb: building package `pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17' in `./../pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17_3.1.22-0.2potato+custom.1.5_i386.deb'.

However, when I try installing the kernel, I hit problems. I realise that I have some sort of version conflict, 
but I don't know how to untangle the muddle I've got myself into. I've tried using dpkg individually
on each .deb, but they still fail. I thought it I could install the kernel first, then install the pcmcia-modules after, it would 
be ok. But no joy. 

Thanks for any help

Dougie


vaiop:/usr/src/linux# dpkg -i ../pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17_3.1.22-0.2potato+custom.1.5_i386.deb  ../kernel-image-2.2.19pre17_custom.1.5_i386.deb 
dpkg: regarding .../pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17_3.1.22-0.2potato+custom.1.5_i386.deb containing pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17:
 pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 conflicts with kernel-image-2.2.19pre17 (<< custom.1.5)
  kernel-image-2.2.19pre17 (version custom.1.1) is installed.
dpkg: error processing ../pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17_3.1.22-0.2potato+custom.1.5_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17
dpkg: regarding .../kernel-image-2.2.19pre17_custom.1.5_i386.deb containing kernel-image-2.2.19pre17:
 pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17 conflicts with kernel-image-2.2.19pre17 (>> custom.1.1)
  kernel-image-2.2.19pre17 (version custom.1.5) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.19pre17_custom.1.5_i386.deb (--install):
 conflicting packages - not installing kernel-image-2.2.19pre17
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ../pcmcia-modules-2.2.19pre17_3.1.22-0.2potato+custom.1.5_i386.deb
 ../kernel-image-2.2.19pre17_custom.1.5_i386.deb