Hi Joao,
Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote:
Hi,
I have a vanilla woody install running in my C110, and its running ok (I intend to deploy it as a departamental samba, printer and intranet server). I'll have to compile the kernel to get SMBFS and automount working, and I was told that I should update my kernel to a newer version, sinse mine is quite outdated. I've been browsing available packages in debian.org, and could not find which would be a suitable sources package. I'd like to get something newer, but nothing too experimental. Given that, are there any suitable deb packages? Where/How sould I get it? Any hints?
Well, may be have you already found in the mean time, but with apt tools it is very easy:
first adapt your /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains for example:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
(you could also change or add ftp.de.debian.org by your nearest ftp mirror ;) )
then run "apt-get update" (which would update the pakages and source list on your system)
Finaly for what you are looking for apt-cache would be you friend:
# apt-cache search kernel-image
kernel-image-2.4.19-32 - 32 bit Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on HPPA.
kernel-image-2.4.19-32-smp - 32 bit SMP Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on HPPA.
kernel-image-2.4.19-64 - 64 bit Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on HPPA.
kernel-image-2.4.19-64-smp - 64 bit SMP Linux kernel image for version 2.4.19 on HPPA.
kernel-image-2.4.20-32 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 32-bit PA-RISC.
kernel-image-2.4.20-32-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 32-bit PA-RISC SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.20-64 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 64-bit PA-RISC.
kernel-image-2.4.20-64-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.20 on 64-bit PA-RISC SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.21-32 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.21 on 32-bit PA-RISC.
kernel-image-2.4.21-32-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.21 on 32-bit PA-RISC SMP.
kernel-image-2.4.21-64 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.21 on 64-bit PA-RISC.
kernel-image-2.4.21-64-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.21 on 64-bit PA-RISC SMP.
kernel-package - A utility for building Linux kernel related Debian packages.
kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.20 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.21 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.21 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.22 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.22 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.0-test9 with Debian patches
kernel-tree-2.4.21 - Linux kernel tree for building prepackaged Debian kernel images
kernel-tree-2.4.22 - Linux kernel tree for building prepackaged Debian kernel images
modules-scyld-source-0.1 - Source code of network drivers from Scyld Computing Co.
kernel-image-2.4.9-32 - 32 bit Linux kernel image for version 2.4.9 on HPPA.
kernel-image-2.4.9-64 - 64 bit Linux kernel image for version 2.4.9 on HPPA.
amoung which you decide to install "kernel-image-2.4.22-32" (or what you prefer) with
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.22-32
Now, if you want to grab sources to customize your kernel, you grab source in your build directory
# apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.22
and follow one the numerus available method to build a custom "debian kernel".
hth, Joel
