Dear Debian users, I'm using Debian Sarge in one of my machines. I wanted to install a newer kernel (Sarge comes with 2.6.8).
Instead of using the kernel.org vanilla kernel source package, I decided that using the debian source package from testing would be better. I downloaded it from : http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/linux-source-2.6.15 I installed it and it drops a file in /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2 I extracted it. Then instead of configuring it, I wanted to be it the debian way. I then downloaded the debian binary package from testing from : http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp I do this just to take the .config file and be able to do a make oldconfig afterwards. I extracted the contents of linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp_2.6.15-8_i386.deb dpkg-deb -x linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp_2.6.15-8_i386.deb /tmp I copied the config file to the source directory cp /tmp/boot/config-2.6.15-1-686-smp /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 cd /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15 make oldconfig And now it asks me for HEAPS of questions. How is this possible ? The config file that comes with the binary package is supposed to be from the same version as the kernel source package. Why it asks those questions about old and new config parameters then ? Thanks in advance. Regards, David McGiven, CTO -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
