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#1 2012-09-08 18:17:10
- leonidas
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How to install a kernel?
I want to install and use another kernel (i.e. 2.6.38.1). Is there any easy way to do that or maybe an example?
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#2 2012-09-08 18:20:38
- graysky
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Re: How to install a kernel?
You'll need that other kernel to have a different name... Arch doesn't support multiple kernel versions of the same kernel. For example, the official kernel package is named 'linux' so you'd need to install another one of the desired version. Hope that makes sense.
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#3 2012-09-08 18:30:29
- leonidas
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Re: How to install a kernel?
Thank you, I need a working example!
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#4 2012-09-08 18:39:12
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Re: How to install a kernel?
Official supported kernels are: 'linux' and 'linux-lts' both of which are not the version in which you are interested. I doubt you'll find one that old even in the AUR. You can compile one yourself by ABS, but I recall some significant changes several months ago in glibc that may not work with an older PKGBUILD without much editing. Look to the wiki for ABS and kernel compilation. Arch Linux is not a newbie friendly distro; you will likely not get your hand held through this...
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