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Re: Newbie kernel upgrade advice



On Thursday 03 February 2005 07:54 am, James Scott wrote:
> I've recently converted to Debian(Sarge) from RedHat, and am now a
> little confused about upgrading the kernel.  The installer set me up
> with 2.6.8-1-386.  When I 'apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6' I find
> several different versions of the kernel to choose from. (i.e. 2.6,
> 2.6.10-1, 2.6.8-2, 2.6.9-2)  How do I know which one I want?
>
> Also, the installer loaded the 386 version of the kernel.  I am
> running a P4 1.8GHz.  Should I upgrade to the 686 version of the
> kernel?

You might want to check your sources.list. If you find kernel 2.6.9(10) 
you have unstable not Sarge.
-- 
Greg C. Madden



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