I am aware that this question has been asked and answered umpteen times on this newsgroup and I know that the available options include:
- roll your own; and - use the Debian way. However I believe that my situation is sufficiently different that it is worth asking: - which option?; and - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be understood by amateurs. The special features on my box are as follows: I have successfully installed both "woody" and (very recently) "sarge" on separate partitions. Woody's 2.4 kernel fails to correctly identify any of the hardware on my ew computer (the drivers <do not exist|are not readily available>). Nevertheless, it has been tweaked and does almost everything that I want (sound and cdrecord do not work). The sarge kernel (2.4.27) recognises my hardware. But sarge comes with lots of bells and whistles that I do not use and will need a lot of massaging before it delivers what I use every day. So if I could _safely_ update the kernel on my "woody" partition, the chore would be much smaller than tweaking "sarge". The outcome that I wish to avoid is that I destroy "woody" with a botched kernel update and am forced to tweak "sarge". All advice will be gratefully received. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
