RE: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
thanks for the info on Potato. if i do decide to go to Potato is there
something i should be wary of. it appears from the other distro that the
2.2 kernel is working fine. does Potato have any specific issues with the
2.2 kernel i.e is something horribly broken that makes Potato very unstable
under kernel 2.2?
Thanks
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Servis
To: pdahiroc@eoir.com
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Sent: 12/30/99 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade: Slink to Potato
*- On 30 Dec, Patrick Dahiroc wrote about "Kernel Upgrade: Slink to
Potato"
> 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.
potato should run just fine on a 2.0.x kernel. I would only do one
upgrad potato/kernel at a time.
> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Point it at the release name of potato and not unstable. When potato
finally goes stable you don't want a suprise the next time you update
apt-get and you have upgraded to the next unstable(woody) release.
> 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.
>
No, the kernel will not automatically upgrade. This topic has been
hashed out before on this list, check the archives. You will need to
grab the kernel source package and build you own kernel.
Brian Servis
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