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Re: Upgrading Kernel to 2.4



On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:24:08AM -0600, John Purser wrote:
> Good Morning,
> 
> I installed Woody but the output from uname says that I'm running kernel
> 2.2.19.  I'd like to upgrade my Kernel to 2.4.  I've run "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" but uname still says I'm running 2.2.19.
> 
> QUESTIONS:
> What kernel is woody supposed to be running?  Did I do something wrong in
> the installation?

A dist-upgrade will never change your kernel. I suppose there are some
prepackaged 2.4 out there; try:
	apt-cache search kernel

You can also compile your own kernel from sources (a thing you should do).
Take a look to make-kpkg from kernel-package deb.

HTH.
> 
> How do I get to a 2.4 kernel?  Should I download the kernel and install it
> (the debian way of course) or is there a good reason not to do this?
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> 
> John Purser
> 
> 
> 
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