John Kuhn wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 08:52:34PM +0200, Meinolf Sander wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000, Sunil Pandey wrote: > > > I am trying to install debian 2.1r5(slink) on my comp. One > > > question that I want to ask is.. is it possible to get debian for a > > > newer version of kernel (say like kernel 2.2.1). > > > > You can run 2.1r5 with a e.g. 2.2.14 kernel without any problem. > > Just download the kernel sources and compile one customized to > > your system. > > Or you get yourself Debian Potato 2.2 (frozen), which is delivered > > with this kernel. > > My experiance was that 2.2.13 is the latest stable kernel that you > can run on slink without updating any other packages. Kernel 2.2.14 > would require installing a newer procps (2.0.3 or later). > > John > > -- Not in my experience. I got the kernel-source for 2.2.14 from kernel.org and did a "manual" compile/install (if that makes any difference, I can't say). I've had no trouble whatsoever and the system is rock stable (except from occasional hardware-related stuff ;-)
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