[plug] To Build a kernel

[Craig Ringer]

Laurie Anderson wrote:
>    
>    Hi,
>    I think I need to build another Kernel as the one I am using at present
>    whould be Debian Woody, which should I thought be version 2.4.**, discovered
>    that it is infact version 2.2.20, the Debian 3.0 CD's were used.
>    How do we achieve this on an existing system???
>    To what do we upgrade too???.

It's pretty trivial to upgrade a Debian system to a 2.4.x kernel - you 
can just use apt. For the basic kernel, just
	apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386
You can also download kernels optimised to your CPU. Options are:

2.4.18-bf2.4		- basic kernel, works with almost everything
2.4.18-586tsc		- Original Pentium, or above
2.4.18-686		- Pentium Pro, Pentium II, AMD Athlon, or newer
2.4.18-686-smp		- Dual Pentium Pro, other dual Intel CPU
2.4.18-k6		- AMD K6, K6-II and K6-III CPUs
2.4.18-k7		- AMD Athlon, Athlon XP
2.4.16-586		- Some pentium-compatable CPUs

Again, just download with apt-get. You can build your own kernel 
instead, but rather than ask here you're better off using google to find 
the information yourself, or starting at the linux documentation project 
(www.tldp.org) - this is a common task, with easily available help on 
the 'net.

Craig Ringer


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