begin Rich Puhek quotation: > I don't believe Debian "customizes" the kernel at all. There are > pre-compiled versions available with different options set (see things > like "kernel-image-2.2.19-compact" and "kernel-image-2.2.19-ide"
There are also usually some extra patches applied, which I prefer to avoid. I build my kernels with the official tarballs. > I'd suggest running 2.4.17 or 2.4.18 if you can... seems to be working > fine. 2.4.18 has some problems that are fixed in 2.4.19pre2. For one thing, I couldn't get at my USB compact flash card reader (which uses the usb-storage driver and pretends to be a SCSI drive) to work under 2.4.18. There have been complaints of other issues on the kernel mailing list as well. I'd suggest sticking with 2.4.17 until 2.4.19 comes out. > One warning (might have been discussed earlier on the thread): > don't use a 2.4.x kernel with Debian Potato (a.k.a "stable" a.k.a > 2.2.r5). There were some issues there. I thought Adrian Bunk had some packages for using 2.4 kernels on Potato. Are those no longer available? I haven't been paying much attention to that, since my only Potato machine is running 2.2.19 and I see no reason to change it. Craig
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