* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 14:47]: > > > It is said that compiling your own kernel with make-kpkg should > > > be pretty easy. It generates a kernel package which you can than > > > install with "dpkg -i". Never tried it myself though ... > > > Compiling smaller software is generally just a matter of running > > > "make" "make install". YMMV > > > > I know ;-) I've used make-kpkg a lot. I'm not sure whether it's > > easy to install one of the newer kernels (even a self-compiled > > one) on sarge though, since it may depend on newer versions of > > e.g. yaird. > > You could avoid yaird by compiling everything in. I think the only > problem would be udev, but I may be wrong
You're probably right ;-) So the question is whether udev is easy to backport to sarge, or whether it will cause problems. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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