Bill Jonas on Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:10:06 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] potato to woody question


On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 09:10:57AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> 1. Am I confused? Apt-get upgraded many things, but not, apparently,
> anything kernel related. Is this intentional? Yes, I could recompile
> the kernel, but I still have to think a lot when I do that, and I've
> made errors before that render my machine inoperable after a kernel
> compile, something I try to avoid.

Oh, forgot to mention, if you *do* decide to compile your own kernel,
you can use Debian's kernel config as a starting point, you can copy
/boot/config-`uname -r` to top_level_kernel_source_directory/.config
before you run "make menuconfig".

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