Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:00:11 -0600, Kent West wrote:
>Mark Healey wrote:
>> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:47:46 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 at 06:35 GMT, Mark Healey penned:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 10:52:38 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Mame cab? What is this beast?
>>>>
>>>>An arcade style video game cabinet. Mame is an emublator of old
>>>>arcade games.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm http://www.mame.net/
>>>
>>>That's what I thought you meant. I'm still confused as to how it
>>>relates to Debian, but *shrug* I'm sure it makes sense to you =)
>>
>>
>> Gotta have a working PC inside, Debian is the distro I plan to use.
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Is there a .deb package (and where is it) or should I just get the
>> .tar.bz2 one from kernel.org?
>>
>> 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.
>
># apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4
>
> . . .
> . . .
>
># apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-k7
That would be nice if I had networking which I don't which is why I'm
trying to build a new kernel in the first place.
Mark Healey
deblist@healeyonline.com
Giving debian a chance.
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