"Mathias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What kernel comes on the offical debian Potato release? I know it doesn't >> matter that much, bit I would like to know. :-) >> I heard the installation CD is not bootable? Any reason for this? >> Thanks for the info :-) > >I had never hered that this CD´s are not bootable. My first debian CD set >workes well. The standard kernel of debian2.2r0 is 2.2.17. The current 2.2r2 >could have kernel 2.2.18. And you can use the kernels 2.4.x. It will not be >very easy to update to the newst kernel, but i did it with success. The only >important thing is to upgrade the packages ppp and modutils from the >unstable woody release to get a fine running kernel 2.4.x. And you need to >compile this packages from the debian sources (using dpkg-buildpackage), >cause woody use another glibc then potato.
It's probably easier to use the potato 2.4 update packages at http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
