Thanks, that sounds like a perfectly good way to solve the problem. I never thought to use another distro's kernel.
I guess it does not really hurt anything to use the RedHat kernel on a Debian system. Actually, I forgot that RedHat has been making a big effort to create a kernel that would run high memory Oracle systems. Thus, RedHat probably has the most experienced kernel package developers for high memory support. > Producing a good kernel for serious server use is a lot of work. Red > Hat has > many good kernel coders working 40+ hours a week on back-porting code > from > 2.6, writing drivers for various unsupported hardware, and merging the > best > patches that float by the l-k list. > > There's no reason for Debian to try to reproduce this effort, the Red > Hat > kernel source is entirely GPL, there's no reason not to use it. I've > been > meaning to package it for Debian... -- ------------------------------------------ Ted Knab Chester, MD 21619 ------------------------------------------ 940216d6021602a41607166696c656c202778696368602d65616e637 02940226c696e646c69702c6f667560256675627478696e67602a416 0716e6563756e2a0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
