Re: question about patching my kernel

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Peter O wrote:

> > Hi everone,
> >
> > Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend.
> > When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on
> > the cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that
> > version (the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But the problem is that I
> > have no idea how to upgrade my kernel. Can somebody tell me what steps I
> > have to take to patch my kernel?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Paul Akkermans
> >    
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> please have a look at this document:
>
> http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
>
>  

Some of the software mentioned in ./Documentation/Changes (which the 
above document mentions) isn't a standard part of Woody and so if you 
want to build and run the kernel yourself then you may have to build 
those packages too.



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John

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