Sanjay Chigurupati wrote on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:06:52PM +0530:
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| When I looked at the directory for the kernel source:
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| I see the source archived in .bz2 format.
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| After unpacking, do I have to recompile the kernel?
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The driver needs some kernel headers. There are two ways to obtain the
kernel headers: 1. by installing the kernel-headers package 2. by
installing the kernel-source package. bunzip2 the .bz2 file.
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| btw, what does the bf extension in the name for kernel stand for? (The
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bf is 'boot floppy'. the boot floppy kernel is the same kernel that
your installer used (bf2.4 is another image which uses the 2.4 kernel
instead of 2.2 (I think only on woody and above, dont remember seeing
it on potato, i guess 2.2 was the standard back then... :) )
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| debian seems pretty interesting. wondering why I did not install it
| earlier
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true... but, interesting is a very subjective term as well... :)
cheers,
-Suraj
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