John Toon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 08 September 2001 10:05 am, Ross Burton wrote: > > Personally I would always recommend downloading yourself a vanilla 2.4.x > kernel tarball from http://www.kernel.org. With kernels, this is one of the > few areas where I think it is better to use the source tarballs rather than a > debian package.
Why not just download the kernel-source package? Similar to the vanilla ones, but usually with a few patches applied. The package installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'. I find it's much easier to manage and install kernel-images using the packaging system. > With the kenel sources, you can compile in _exactly_ the options you want, > including devfs. If you'd rather, install the kernel sources via apt-get. > Either way, use sources rather than a prebuilt image, since the image will > include a mass of unused and unnessary drivers for your machine. -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
