kernel install-checksig errors

[Kurt Wall]

Scribbling feverishly on May 23, Net Llama! managed to emit:
> Harry G wrote:
> >>Then again, you could avoid all of this headache by simply building
> >>2.4.18 from source.
> > 
> > 
> > Boy, you must really want me to fry my brain!
> > 
> > Actually, though, is it tough?  I have heard that Suse patches the crap 
> > out of the kernel.

As do Red Hat and Caldera.

> I'm sure that SuSE does patch their kernels up the wazoo, but that 
> hardly means that you are tied to them.  All distros patch their kernels 
> heavily.  I haven't used a distro supplied kernel since 2.2.5.

Indeed. The first thing I do after a fresh distro install is wipe the 
supplied kernel and kernel sources and downloa a virgin copy from my
favorite kernel mirror.

Kurt
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