Thank you to all who let me know some more information about kernel 2.4.1. It installed flawlessly, runs smoothly so far, and if anything seems lightning quick. I'm looking forward to reformatting some of the partitions as reiser and play around with it for a while.
However, I'm really confused by one last issue. When I run modconf, it doesn't think I have any modules available. However, the rest of the module utilities seem to work ok. For example: # lsmod Module Size Used by tulip 34064 1 # modprobe -l /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/block/rd.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/de4x5.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/dummy.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/emu10k1/emu10k1.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/sound.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/sound/soundcore.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/nls/nls_cp437.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/nls/nls_iso8859-1.o /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o I'd really like to install my emu10k1 module (though I haven't compiled enough of the support files, I'm still missing midi support and mixer support in some other files - I'll find the source files soon enough) and the reiserfs module. I have the latest modconf availabe in sid though I'm using woody. What's up with modconf? ii modconf 0.2.30 Device Driver Configuration ii modutils 2.4.1-2 Linux module utilities. Thank you again.