G'Day ! When I needed to upgrade my system, I used a kernel with a parallel port zip drive configured as a module. I then put the kernel image on the zip drive ....
cheers, Jim Parker Sailboat racing is not a matter of life and death .... It is far more important than that !!! Petr Hlustik <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icago.edu> cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: kernels 10/17/00 02:02 PM Hi, > Bottom line: Does anybody know of any easy way that I > can upgrade my kernel? It seems as if I need a lot of > packages and the 13MB image... I did the same thing last year when my laptop wanted a 2.2 kernel and new pcmcia_cs in order to get the network card working. I split the big deb's onto a lot of floppies... tar -c -v -M -L 1440 -f /dev/fd0 files-to-tar Best, Petr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]