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Re: problems installing 2.4 kernel



irvine@vuosaari.hai.fi wrote:
Hello all

I recently installed debian potato 2.2
and quickly discovered that I would need
to install a 2.4 kernel so that I could get the computers network card working.

I read through the mailing list archives and decided to do the following.


 1, add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

        deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
	deb-src http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
2, run apt-get update
 3, run apt-get -u dist-upgrade
However when all was finished it seems that only that only 9 packages were upgraded and none were
newly installed.

The upgraded packages were (not sure if this is important):
	e2fsprogs
	makedev
	modconf
	modutils
	ppp
	quota
	bsdutils
	mount	
	util-linux

But no kernel. I just wondering what I did
wrong. And does anyone have any advice viz
how I can put things right.

T:Irvine




apt-get dist-upgrade will not replace your kernel.

Try apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.9-386 [or 586, etc.] to install the kernel image.

--
Jerome



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