Try this again, without hitting send before I am ready :) Couple of "survival" techniques you could do to survive with Windows, while waiting for the new kernel: 1) If you have the fortune to be able to install Windows Server on your machine, you could download the free VMWare server and install Linux within there. Then configure and run the VMWare console on the same machine. Or, get VMWare workstation, which does not need a server version of Windows. 2) Try a live distrobution. - Joey On 10/12/06, Sam Martin <s.earl.martin at gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/12/06, Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.net> wrote: > > You could try gentoo. There's a couple 2.6.18s in portage. They > > haven't been flagged as stable yet, but I wouldn't think there would be > > a problem with running the vanilla kernel. > > Thanks for the tip. I'll have to take a look at gentoo. > > > If all you need is the kernel, shouldn't you be able to load any distro > > that supports a generic x86 processor and build 2.6.18 yourself? I know > > some distros add in their own patches, but they're usually not too critical. > > It's the "load any distro" step that I can't get past. So far, I > haven't been able to find a magic incantation that makes any of my > generic install cds recognize my dvd drive, which leads to a "no > installation medium found" type of message somewhere in the boot > process. I'm hoping that the updated kernel, which supposedly has > better support for my hardware, will get me past that step. I may try > installing with the cd image stored on some external medium, but for > now, I'm pretty much stuck. > > > sm > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >