2.4 to 2.6 'upgrade'

[john@apep.keimel.com (John Keimel)]

I have a new Dell Poweredge 750 that would not let me install 'linux26'
on at install boot. So I installed 'linux' from the boot CD. 

I subsequently installed kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686 on it. 

Now when I run "apt-get dist-upgrade" it tells me :

$ sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Inst kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 [2.4.27-10] (2.4.27-10sarge1
  Debian:3.1r1/stable, Debian-Security:3.1/stable)
  Conf kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 (2.4.27-10sarge1 Debian:3.1r1/stable,
  Debian-Security:3.1/stable)



But, that's not what I want to install. And I really want to make this
'cleaner' and not have to ignore the 2.4 kernel info. 

Suggestions on how to clean this up? 

Thanks

j