Debian and kernels.

[evulish]

Ok, I just installed the Debian base system and noticed it had kernel 2.2.*. Is there a way I can update it to 2.4.* or do I have to stick with 2.2 untill theres a new release?

[godot]

download the src

cd /usr/src
tar zxf linux-2.4.6.tar.gz
cd linux
make menuconfig
apt-get install kernel-image
make-kpkg kernel_image
cd /usr/src
dpkg blah.deb

pretty neat, huh?

[godot]

oh yeah, may need to install some ncurses stuff too

apt-get install libncurses5-dev or something like that

[bdl]

Theres a hitch to that, especially the fact that modutils needs to be upgraded to work with the 2.4 series kernels. Please have a look at this page (http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html), which describes which packages to get for potato.

Depending on how you use the system, you might consider adding 'woody' to your sources.list and getting the necessary updated packages that way, or just upgrading the entire system. I believe woody is slated to be released as 'stable' later this year, and I've always found it to be stable anyway.


BTW, the packages you need to do the standard kernel compile (on i386 platform)are:

kernel-package (allows you to install the kernel as a deb)
libncurses5-dev (nice to use make menuconfig)
bin86 (required to compile on i386)



[ 05 July 2001: Message edited by: bdl ]

[godot]

shoot, forgot about that.....

[crazyox2]

dpkg -i blah.deb

[crazyox2]

http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~www/particle/Doc/kernel-package.html

[Tfortysix]

Don't know why, but I couldn't use eth0 (tulip driver)with the 2.4.5 kernel deb, resource was always busy. Got it from kernel.org, and everything is fine, freakin wierd.