Re: On your upgrade from woody to sarge

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:16:28 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless
<fairless@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:27:46 -0600 (CST), Gayle Lee Fairless
> <fairless@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> [...]
> 
>  >
> >         I was wondering if the apt-get dist-upgrade would also upgrade
> the
> > kernel, too.  Sourceforge makes it sound easy.
> >
> 
> Only if there are updated Debian revision of your kernel version.
> 
> Andrea
> 
>         Does that mean that a change from a 2.4 kernel to a 2.6 kernel has
> to be a separate operation?  (In which case, I guess I had better really
> study that Sourceforge document very seriously!)
> 

It's easy but not automatic, and you can keep them both installed, or
better, with Debian you can have how many kernels installed as you
want...


Andrea