Bug#341524: yaird: fails to upgrade from linux-2.4 to 2.6
On Thu Dec 01, 2005 at 07:58:32AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> Well, yaird cannot install from a 2.4 kernel, which is why you see this
> failure. The correct upgrade way using yaird is to first upgrade to the sarge
> (2.6.8) or etch (2.6.12) 2.6 kernel, and then upgrade to 2.6.14 after a
> reboot, using yaird, or boot the current 2.6.14 based sid-d-i netinst, once
> you are at the partitioning step, go to console 2, mount your root partition,
> chroot into it, mount /proc and /sys, and dpkg-reconfigure
> linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7. The other alternative is to install initramfs-tools,
> which knows how to install from a 2.4 kernel. I prefer using yaird myself
> though.
Is this what the upgrade path from sarge will look like for etch
(assuming here that etch will go up to 2.6.14, or will that not happen
at all?).
In general, why not simply change the depends to have the whole thing
Just Work in the general case?
A.
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