Re: Debian Install Help Please!

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:21:04 +0000, Jeff Gaines wrote:

> On 18/08/2005 John Peach wrote:
>
>> IIRC that's in the kernel source for 2.4 kernels; maybe a bit late
>> now, but using the incantation "linux26" from the install CD gives
>> you a 2.6 kernel.
>
> John
>
> I actually tried that today, in another install. Are there major
> advantages in the 2.6 kernel, I did some Googling and I think it was
> released only days after Sarge was released.
>
> I don't plan to continue twice a day installations but I want to get
> the experimenting over before I start amassing data on the Debian box
> :-)

2.6.0 was released in December 2003. I've been using 2.6 kernels with
Sarge in production for over a year now. As someone else already said,
better hardware support is one advantage. I'd go further than that, 2.6 is
still being developed, so you get other goodies/efficiencies and as 2.4
becomes more obsolete, fewer people are going to bother backporting
features to it.
The only problem I've had with 2.6 and the Debian install is with
Compaq/HP smartarrays - for some reason Grub will not install at first, so
I've had to use LILO and then replace it with Grub when the build's
complete.

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