[plug] Re: kernel update was: USB palm pilot

[caston at arach.net.au]

Quoting Andrew Pamment <pamment at iinet.net.au>: 
 
 
>  
> if you are going to do this, you might as well grab 2.4.20 of 
> www.kernel.org, and get up to date.  
 
 
Funny you should say that. Sometimes when something is taking a long time to do or figure 
out in computing I just ask myself if in actual fact I am just being "lazy" and thus taking a 
route that actually makes it take longer. 
 
I just update the kernel on my sid setup and it seems to be working quite well. 
 
I'm now using 2.4.20-1-k7 
 
> But then, maybe there is a better "debian" way to do it. I think there 
> has got to be some secret debian initiation manual that I don't know 
> about that tells you all these things. 
> 
 
All I did was update the system then install the kernal message using apt. 
After downloading and installing with all the dependencies it warned me that I needed to add a 
line to the "Stanza" section of my lilo.conf Although I'm not sure if I did this right (my system 
boots fine) my lilo.conf now looks like 
 
image=/vmlinuz 
        label=Linux 
        read-only 
#       restricted 
#       alias=1 
initrd=/initrd.img 
 
After running lilo it complained about not being able to find it. I wasn't sure what to do but did 
not want to back out so I continued. The next question was related to this but I can't quite 
remember (or I didn't completely understand) what it said. 
 
After finishing I rebooted my system and everything worked like a dream. 
 
Anyway I thought updating the kernel was a long and completed process but it seems not. 
 
Maybe there are some apt sources for some more featured exotic kernels around 
 
  
> Hope that helps. If not, hit your computer and call it rude words. That 
> always helps me. 
 
 
hehe... fsck it... 
> Andrew 
> 
thanks Andrew 
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> Andrew Pamment  
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>  
> "Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue 
> in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined His loss." John Milton. 
>  
 
 

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