Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?
Here is a more complete howto by another poster.
Kernel 2.5.x is the development series and not
recommended for new users. The latest stable kernels
are the 2.4 series. You don't mention what
distribution of debian you are using so it's hard to
tell what the latest debian kernel package for you
is....You can check available packages for your
distribution at:
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
--- dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:02:49 -0500
> From: dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:55:28PM -0800, Camilux
> wrote:
> | Hi ppl, just wanted to know if theres a "Debian"
> way of upgradind
> | the kernel as well.. or is it still manually
> downloading, unzipping,
> | etc etc?
>
> # apt-get install kernel-image-<version>-<arch>
> # vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
> # reboot
>
> or
>
> # apt-get install kernel-source-<version>
> $ cd /usr/src
> $ tar -jxvf kernel-source-<version>.tar.bz2
> $ cd kernel-source-<version>
> $ fakeroot make-kpkg clean
> $ fakeroot make-kpkg --config=xconfig
> --append-to-version=-custom.1
> --revision=custom.1 kernel_image
> kernel_doc kernel_headers
> # dpkg -i
> ../kernel-image-<version>_<version>_<arch>.deb
> # vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
> # reboot
>
> I do both of these. I run the custom kernel made
> via the latter
> steps, but keep a (recent) pre-packaged one just in
> case.
>
> You can, of course, grab the tarball from kernel.org
> and do it
> yourself if you like that better.
>
> -D
>
<<SNIP>>
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