On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:48:22AM -0700, np rpr wrote: [re-wrapped for your reading pleasure] > Hi All, > I am a new debian user. and am trying to upgrade my machine to > 2.4.19, I downloaded the image and tried deb -i kernel-image.. Don't use dpkg like this right now. run `apt-get install kernel-image-<version>-<whatever>' to install the kernel and the bits it needs or use aptitude or dselect. If you still want to use dpkg, at least check which packages it Depends on, using `apt-cache show <package-name>'. > it told me to add initrd=/initrd under vmlinuz, I did that but when I > tried lilo.. I got the error that initrd doesn't exist. According to > the message I am supposed to edit /etc/kernel-img.conf. But I > couldn't find this file? Maybe this is provided by initrd-tools, a package that you have to have installed to use the kernel-image? > Is there any way so that my kernel and other dependent packages can be > automatically upgraded by using dselect or any other command.. please > tell me I am not much familiar with these as I am using debian very > first time. Nothing in Debian will ever automatically upgrade your kernel for you, but you can ask apt to get you a new one `apt-get install kernel-image-<version>-<whatever>'. Debian is not Red Hat. You virtually never have to install anything using dpkg. Use `apt-get install <package-name>', which will do go find the package, download and it's dependencies, install them all then perform basic setup, or aptitude or dselect. -rob
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