Re: upgrading the kernel to 2.4

[Jon Pennington <jpennington@atipa.com>]

Phil Brutsche wrote:
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> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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> > it didn't help me! version in unstable(testing) is still 2.3.11 and 2.4
> > kernels need at least 2.3.18 (from Changes).
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> unstable != testing
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> You need the modutils from unstable (sid).  Keep in mind that that you can
> just plop the binary package in to a woody system - you'll need to compile
> your own .deb.

This is probably pretty dangerous, but I keep a Potato box at home for
when I feel like hand-rolling things, and I have the following entry in
/etc/apt/sources.list:

  deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free
contrib

That way, if there's already a deb or an updated deb in unstable, I can
use something like

  apt-get source -b blackbox

For instance, to build a copy of blackbox from the newer sources, but
against my installed libraries.

HTH

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