On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:53:14PM -0700, Noah Sombrero wrote: > On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:35:48 -0700, you wrote: > > >Not just to you but Debian is cautious when it comes to Kernel upgrade. > >Changing sources.list does not upgrade kernel from 2.2 to 2.4. > > > >It requires you to install and at the same time configure few things. > >Mostly initrd related staff. > > did apt-get update > apt-get upgrade If you didn't do apt-get dist-upgrade, do that to load new package (where potato package has been split into several in woody) and to solve dependency issues with any packages you have been kept back and not upgraded. > > Then installed the new kernel. Yes, I can still boot 2.2 from a floppy. I have not > removed the old kernel. This system never did boot from hard drive because > of the remote location of the linux partition. > > What needs to be configured besides lilo? > > > See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ > > See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ > > "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net > > Will look at these. Usually, cooked references are acres of simple advice which > never get around to mentioning the problem I am having. Or the problem is > mentioned in the 10th sentence of the 12,375th paragraph, right here on page > 1,323 with no reference anywhere that points to it. It is so much easier and > quicker if somebody knows the answer. > > Gleason > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Jerome
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