On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, ktb wrote: > > > > > > Is there an easier way to do what I'm trying to do? This is my first > > > attempt at compiling a kernel. I thought I would go ahead and try 2.2.1 > > > instead of the one I have 2.0.34. It was my understanding that dselect > > > would download, place the new kernel in the right directory and take > > > care of some linkage issues. Anyway if this can't be done I think I'll > > > just stick to the kernel I have for the time being. > > > > dselect only understands Debian packages, I don't think ftp.kernel.org has > > any Debian packages. So it's just getting thoroughly confused by what > > you're doing. You need to download one of the Debian kernel-source > > packages from ftp.debian.org or a mirror. > > OK I took a look at ftp.debian.org and I see no kernel package. Where > would I find a deb 2.2.1 package? I found a kernel package at > ftp://ftp.netgod.net/linux/v2.2/ but can dselect can't handle this? > I've looked all over the debian site, I can't believe it isn't listed > there. Thanks, Kent
It is in unstable (maybe frozen--it's supposed to be part of 2.1, kernel-source only). You can just download the kernel-source package and install it with dselect. If you get it from ftp.kernel.org (as I did), I'd recommend putting it in /usr/local/src with 'tar xvf'. In either case, make-kpkg will handle it. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
