Re: Fwd: Re: Upgrading Kernel the Debian way?
Hi Charles,
Well, im using Debian 2.2 r5 (just upgraded a while ago to that)...
again, thanks a lot for all the help..
- Camilo
On 17 Jan 2002, at 6:03, Charles Baker wrote:
> 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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