Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote:
: hi
:
: i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is
: pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this.
: If is give the commands
: root> apt-get update
: root> apt-get dist-upgrade
: with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this automatically get the
: 2.2.? kernel and go through the configuration process. or do i have to get
: the latest kernel first configure it and then run the apt-get commands.
Well, there are pre-compiled kernel images ... so you could do an
apt-get install kernel-image-<version_you_want>
Alternatively you could install the kernel source and create your own
package.
apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source-<version_you_want>
cd /usr/src
tar xIf kernel-source-<version_you_want>.tar.bz2
cd kernel-source-<version_you_want>
make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg --revision=`hostname`.<version_you_want>-1
Following these steps you'll find a kernel-image deb file in /usr/src;
install it using `dpkg -i', run lilo, and reboot.
HTH,
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