From: "Edenyard" mail@edenyard.co.uk Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:12:59 +0000 To: MJ Ray markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk CC: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: Locked directories - Sympathy

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:45:29 +0100, MJR wrote:

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Anyone here with a kernel 2.4 Debian installation CD? I'm sure such things exist, but I don't have one.

I've looked in all the usual places, but they all seem to say 2.2.xx for Debian. That's the frustrating thing: one hears how good Debian is, but can't try it! I wondered whether it's possible to take a distribution (e.g., Debian) and install it with another kernel?? I don't know enough about how all the different bits of Linux fit together to know whether this is a sensible suggestion.

 Gerald.

Check out http://www.uk.debian.org/News/2001/20010415 it's an article on what to add to your sources.list to upgrade to a 2.4.X kernel. I've done it on both my laptop and desktop computers and they run fine now (with proper USB support! yea!). I won't include a summary as i recommend you read all the instructions listed there.

A small word of warning though, the apt source is unofficial so therefore it is unsupported, but the maintainer is a registered Debian developer so it's all pretty well maintained. The source addresses start http://people.debian.org/~bunk/

Pete

Pete www.crawl-space.org.uk p.delf@uea.ac.uk