Re: why debian - longer - kernels
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Or, you answer y for the relevant IDE, SCSI, fs & chipset drivers,
> and m to everything else. Then, you don't need an initrd.
yes... but that's the whole trick to the problem .. people can do
that to get around all the problems but ....
- it will never cover all the various combinations of
hardware ... if one is using older kernels
as new hw comes out monthly and the drivers may or
may not be in newer kernels
but that's the fun of it all .. finding hw combo that barfs the kernel
which is fairly ez to do
c ya
alvin
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