Re: kernel

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 09:43:43PM -0500, Bob Wheate wrote:
> why the 2.2.# kernel instead of the 2.4.# ?

2.4 is an option. Boot from CD 5, or type 'bf24' at the boot: prompt of
CD 1. (This is documented in chapter 5.2 of the Installation Manual.)

Basically, at the time woody was originally being prepared for freeze,
2.4 clearly wasn't ready to be the default. Things changed quite a bit
over the duration of the freeze, which was rather longer than we
expected, but a major thing like changing the default installation
kernel just tends to push a freeze back further. Having it there as an
option offered the best of both worlds.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]