On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 19:40, Brian Clark wrote: > First, I have a feeling I'm going to burn for this one, but.. why is > Debian (all versions?) not running 2.4 kernels? Please, please go > easy.. :-)
There's a thread about this in debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200111/msg00891.html I concur that 2.4 has been rocky. I have great hopes that 2.4.15 will be the first solid release in a while and will compile without problems. Loopback support doesn't compile under 2.4.14. However you can already run a 2.4 kernel under Potato using Adrian Bunk's packages: http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html A 2.2 kernel can provide hardware challenges. I was lucky that Reiserfs+backported UDMA boot disks were released for my hardware: http://www.digitaltux.com/disks/reiserfs/udma/ I'm sure it's only a matter of time before unofficial Debian 2.4 kernel boot disks are released to help those with hardware that requires a 2.4 kernel at install time. Regards, Adam
