[20030630] James (wireless@tampabay.rr.com) wrote: > I read that may people are running 2.4.x kernels on their portables. Is > there a (semi) stable release > of Debian 2.4, that I can run on a portable? Even woody has 2.4.18. On your boot cd type bf24 [enter]... > I have a Prostar P-IV running at 2GHz.... You defenitely need 2.4 to get 100% from that monster :) > Could a portable boot 2 kernels (2.2.a and 2.4) from lilo without having > the installed packages wig out? As many as you want. Just add the right entries in your /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. > This way I can test everything on the same portable BEFORE making a > permanent commitment to 2.4. For a debian pre-compiled kernel : $ apt-cache search kernel-image-2.4 $ apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.'LATEST VERSION'-686 The other option is to compile your own kernel, even with acpi support (w/ patches), since your laptop must be an acpi one : $ apt-get install kernel-source-2.4'LATEST VERSION' (for non-ACPI) or fetch 2.4.21 from www.kernel.org & the appropriate patch from acpi.sourceforge.net. In both cases read the 'kernel compile how-to' in LDP. Also $ apt-get install kernel-package libncurses-dev $ man make-kpkg to compile it the "debian way" :) -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: mtzanidakis@jabber.org ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu
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