Re: How crazy is it to run 2.4.20 on woody?
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:13:12PM -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I'd like to use kernel 2.4.20 because (apparently) it drives my machine's
> built-in sound
> ref: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=20021218232653.45c6eac7.cgrimland%40yahoo.com.lucky.linux.kernel&rnum=6&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dgigabyte%2Bga-7vax%2Blinux%2Bsound%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg
>
> But I don't want to upgrade to testing or unstable in general. How crazy
> is it to do this? What will I break? (I'm comfortable self-compiling
> kernels.)
I run woody with 2.4.20 no problem, seems plenty of other people do too.
> If I do it, is the best way to download kernel-source-2.4.20.deb and then
> do a dpkg -i locally, or should I tweak /etc/apt/sources.list?
I think the first method is probably easier.
I just got it straight from www.kernels.org and did it all by hand;
that worked too.
Pigeon
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