>What is the point of doing this? I've always compiled my own kernels from >source, in both RedHat and Debian, and never felt the need to use either >.rpm or .deb versions. Perhaps it's because I don't use lilo but prefer >loadlin.
Compiling a kernel is not a problem, but I only installed the base system and don't want to manual download all the stuff I need to compile the kernel (12 MB kernel sources, egcs, etc...). I want to install add. packages via apt and ISDN, but the ISDN configuration doesn't work and maybe the 2.2.1 kernel fix this problem. But I don't want to download 12 MB kernel sources to find out that the 2.2.1 kernel doesn't fix it. :-) Oliver
