Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

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Alexei Chetroi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:59:47AM -0800, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:59:47 -0800 (PST)
From: saravanan ganapathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Alexei Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody
   

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 The latest kernel on kernel.org is 2.4.28 indeed. The debian stable
choosed kernel 2.4.18 as kernel for woody release. So debian's kernel
2.4.18 includes security patches for exploits found in kernels 2.4.19,
.20, etc.

 Kernel 2.4.18 does support highmem, but debian's package is compiled
without highmem support. So you have two options:
1st.
Recompile debian's 2.4.18 kernel with highmem support, keep eye on
debian-security-announce list and whenever kernel 2.4.18 gets updated
recompile it.
2nd.
use latest kernel from kernel.org compiled with highmem support and 
recompile it whenever security hole is discovered.

 

Is there any lack in this?
   

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Alexei Chetroi
 

if your sources.list in /etc/apt/ are "correct" you can also install a 
debian package from Sarge or Sid 2.4.27 and 2.6.9.

I think it's the best way.
bye
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