On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Ken Weingold wrote: > Sorry for all the questions. Is there any particular reason why I
No other reason then that it makes life easy, no need to think of all the details and how they fit in the deb-way-of-life. Like where to put the kernel, update the modules and what have you that all distros do slightly different. > should installed the kernel package rather than just doing it myself > from the source from www.kernel.org? I want to rebuld the kernel so > it should hopefully fix some stupid problems I am having due to the > default kernel put in by the install. I'm not terribly familiar with > the Debian packages over the plain source. Here you go. Either read up to the deb-way-of-kernel-handling or simply revert to kernel-package. And let no-one withhold you from reading the docs that come with it, or even inspecting its implementation just to get a better feel of the-one-and-only-debian-way:) -- groetjes, carel
