Mike - so the initrd showed up in the kernel-image package along with instructions.
Perhaps I should try this again and see if I'm missing something. Otherwise, I guess I'll just have to compile my own... - Steve -----Original Message----- From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 2:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dist upgrade potato to woody 2.2 to 2.4 kernel On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:49:09PM -0400, Stephen Nosal wrote: > so, is it possible that the standard build requires a ramdisk, but if you > 'roll your own' it is not necessary? > > If the above is true, and I wish to install the standard build kernel, how > do I go about putting together this ramdisk and configuring it correctly? is > it as simple as an additional line in lilo? What creates the > 'initrd-2.4.4-686' file? The file came with the kernel. In fact, the lilo line was made known to me during the install by a debconf message. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
