On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:04:14AM -0600, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm considering adding a 2.4.24 kernel from backports.org to my pure > Woody system to get support for my multitude of peripherals and such. > > Are there any catches that I should look out for before I go for it?
You can download the "pure Debian" kernel-source package, and AIUI the image too, from unstable, and dpkg -i it straight in to a standard woody system without running into any dependency problems. > I noticed that this will also update my initrd package. Is this safe? Never used an initrd myself but if you do it "the Debian way" (ie. use make-kpkg if you're building from source, and dpkg -i the resulting package) you should be OK. Just make sure to keep your old kernel around in case of problems. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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