Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600
Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]

> start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config.  Be sure to include the 
> initrd option when compiling the kernel with make-kpkg.

I'm curious; why do you recommend initrd?  I built plenty of kernels
using kernel-package without initrd without a problem; I only began to
use initrd when I began to use s2disk, which encourages it.

Celejar
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