On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:14:06PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Thomas Beresford (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > Is it possible to install a 2.6 kernel on woody? > > Yes, if you install the necessary userspace utilities. This includes > module-init-tools, and newer versions of a lot of other packages, > perhaps procps, util-linux, e2fstools, lm-sensors and some more. There > are 2.6 backports available from backports.org, that packages should > satisfy the most important dependencies. > > > If so what version is the most recommmended? > > If you compile the source from kernel.org, use the newest version. > Additionally, this info was in the last Debian Weekly News[1]. I haven't looked at it, but maybe it is helpful?
(From Debian Weekly News - November 30th, 2004) Installing Linux 2.6 on Debian. Falko Timme wrote a [20]tutorial on running Linux 2.6 together with Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody). In order to have module support some backports need to be installed. One of the final steps is creating a ramdisk so that the kernel will boot properly. 20. http://www.falkotimme.com/howtos/debian_kernel2.6_compile/ [1] List-Archive: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/> -- Chris Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux --- The best things in life are free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
