Re: Woody Stable Kernel

["W.D. McKinney" <dee@akwireless.net>]

Excellent. Thanks.

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 23:15, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> W.D. McKinney (<dee@akwireless.net>) wrote:
> 
> > Just loaded up Woody on a Compaq server and I have
> > # uname -r
> > 2.4.18-bf2.4
> > 
> > I assume from the Security updates there should be a updated kernel ?
> > Yet using :
> > 
> > /etc/apt/sources.list
> > [...]
> > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
> > 
> > shows no update available ? What course should be taken ?
> 
> The installation kernel is not known to the package management. Do
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
> This will install the latest version which should be
> kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4_2.4.18-5woody4_i386.deb. Please note that
> one of the DSAa stated that the kernel update is incompatible to
> modules compiled for the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel from Woody r0 and r1, so
> if you use custom kernel modules you probably have to recompile them.
> 
> There are also hardware architecture specific kernel images available
> like kernel-image-2.4.18-686-1 or kernel-image-2.4.18-k7-1 which you
> maybe want to use instead of the installation kernel.
> 
> best regards
>         Andreas Janssen
> 
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