Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 21:18 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
>
> With Redhat moving towards their Fedora scheme I figure that a move to
> Debian is the best way to avoid any more surprises from another
> comercial vendor. I've also noticed that most distros that are built
> upon another are built upon Debian, so it must be pretty good.
>
> Anyway I believe I should get kernel version 2.4.22. That's the
> latest stable one, right?
I'm running 2.4.21, so I'm guessing 2.4.22 would be sufficiently recent
=)
> Is there a .deb package (and where is it) or should I just get the
> .tar.bz2 one from kernel.org?
Yup. Um, let's see. I would normally go to
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and search from there, but it's
giving me a "malformed query" error.
What I normally do is download the kernel-source package, and that puts
all the code in /usr/src. Of course, that method isn't terribly
helpful to you at the moment.
You could get the kernel.org stuff if you want; my impression is that
debian maintainers add their own useful patches and whatnot on top of
that, but I know I've run a custom-built kernel from kernel.org on a
debian system in the past without trouble.
> I did find a HOWTO but it is pretty redhat centric and assumes that
> one has X running. My X doesn't work, I'm sure I'll be posting about
> that later.
>
> Is there a good clear debian centered HOWTO and where is it?
Um. I know there are some debian-specific tools to make building a
kernel easier, but I am lazy and still do things the way I learned to do
them lo these many years ago. For one thing, the stock debian kernels
use initrd, so I assume the debian tools create a kernel that uses
initrd (but I don't know that for sure).
I did just find this by googling on "debian kernel build":
http://docs.linux.cz/debian-faq/debian-faq-11.html
> BTW. Knoppix kicks ass.
Indeed =)
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