dear pai-
> If all you wanted, was the kernel 2.2.x, there was no need to
> get Debian-frozen. You could well have got the relevant Debian
> package and done a smooth kernel compile.
well, umm , yes. but i was greedy and wanted to go all the way up to
2.2.15 with all the latest bells and whistles. (might as well, since
one keeps postponing these tasks to some suitable weekend which never
comes!) hence i decided on a distro upgrade. which actually went well
and wasn't time consuming (1 hr or so).
-akr
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