Jenny wrote:
Happy spring, all! I've celebrated by doing my first kernel upgrade. Now, I have gone through all the make stuff, and ended up at make bzimage, with the intention of sticking the image on a floppy for testing. However I've come up with the message "warning: kernel is too large for standalone boot from floppy".
How advisable is it to just go ahead and "make install" at this stage? I have copied vmlinz-2.2.18 and config-2.2.18 to vmlinuxOLD and configOLD.
Also, is "make bzlilo" like "make install" but also tells lilo about the new kernel image?
Hi Jenny, Dunno if you want to know this now, but if you install the "kernel-package" you only have to run cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision mine.1 kernel_image" then install the created deb in /usr/src. This is the Debian way of doing it, but at least when you do it manually you know get to know what it's doing. Paul wrote:
Do you want to try compiling a 2.4.18 kernel ???
I wouldn't install 2.4.18 on Debian stable (sid) tho - requires a lot of package updates! Upgrade to Unstable been running on mine for weeks with NO problems! :-))) Cheers David.