On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:19:15PM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > This is a really dumb newbie question. > > I'm experienced with Linux (slackware) but not much at all with debian. > > In response to my question in IP Masquerading on a Mac, Adam Powell said to > get a 2.4 kernel out of sid. > > How do I do that? > > I know how to use dselect to install and remove packages from my machine. > But I don't know how to configure things to get packages out of different > releases. > > I would actually enjoy compiling kernels myself, and do it all the time with > > SlackWare, but my understand is that debian has it's own concept of what > kernel source is (to work with apt) and also the powerpc kernels that are > best to use are not what I'd get from kernel.org. >
This is a debian-user question, and probably has been answered there. You edit your apt sources.list to change the release. Here's a couple of links. lynx /usr/share/doc/HTML/debian/index.html <LI><a href="http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/AptHelp";>Apt Help</a> > So a further question is, if I want to compile a 2.4 kernel on a Mac, how do > I use dselect to get it. > > Mike > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: <http://www.debian.org> | | : :' : | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | `. `'` | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `- | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
