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Hi there, I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) but my sources.list is configured to only update against the unstable branch. So here's the question: since woody's official Linux kernel is 2.2.20, did I do a very unwise thing by installing a 2.4.20 kernel from http://kernel.org? What about the fact that /usr/include still contains stuff specific to 2.2.20 kernel (that shipped with woody) and all the kernel-aware utils (like modprobe) haven't been recompiled by me to accomodate to the new kernel? I have no problems so far, but why?

And yes, I would prefer to keep upgrading the kernel off kernel.org rather than installing a Debian kernel* package, if at all possible.

I have a 2.2.20 filesystem and a 2.4.19 kernel and have had no problems at all.

From sources I got from kernel.org.

The main thing you have to watch for is that you update any of the packages that are mentioned in the linux/Documentation/changes file in the 'Current Minimal Requirements' section for the new kernel

No.

Not a problem. That stuff needs to match libc6, not the kernel.

Because Debian planned for this.

No problem. I suggest that you look at kernel-package.