I've searched the mailing list and see that this has come up before, but I haven't quite found the answer I'm looking for. I'm new to debian, so still getting to grips with apt and dselect.
What I'd like to do is build a stable machine so potato is fine. However, the only non-stable thing I need is reiser support. I have a few large reiser partitions installed using Mandrake, and want to access them from my potato install. I notice that I can rebuild the kernel to get the SMP support, but the only way to get reiser seems to be to download a tarball from www.kernel.org or wherever. At the moment I've built a potato system, and it's got SMP and reiser support and running kernel 2.4.14 (the latest 'stable' kernel, allegedly, but I've had a few machine lockups which sound suspiciously similar to what others have described for 2.4.14 kernels.) So to get a stable machine that supports reiser do I; 1. Modify my /etc/apt/sources.list to allow me to get 'testing' packages 2. Download a kernel package directly and compile it in. I thought 2. would be the better approach, as it would allow me to keep my potato distro as potato as possible. I thought if I modified /etc/apt/sources.list to allow testing packages then I immediately stop having a potato system. I can't be the first person to find themselves in this quandry. Any suggested approaches? Dougie
