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Re: upgrade sarge from 2.0 to 2.6



Ron Johnson wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 15:10 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Tom Weller at Ambassador Computers wrote:

I am presently running Sarge with the 2.4 kernel, but wish to upgrade to the
version running the 2.6 kernel. Rather than re-install from the option 2.6 I
want to upgrade, and 2 days of research in the various documentation has
fallen short of the goal.

Any advice?

Just install a 2.6 kernel
apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 # replace the 686 by the correct
  cpu variant, try "apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6" for more options

If you have a default sarge 2.4 kernel (i.e. not a self-compiled one)
that should be all.


If you self-compile, then it's a lot like 2.4:
# apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.10 libncurses-dev libqt3-mt-dev
# cd /usr/src
# tar xvfj kernel-source-2.6.10.tar.bz2
# rmdir linux && ln -sf kernel-source-2.6.10 linux
# cd linux
# make clean
# make {x|menu}config
# make modules_install
# cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.xx
# cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.xx
# cp .config /boot/config-2.6.10
# vi /etc/lilo.conf  ## If you're Old School!
# lilo -v

Once you get a good kernel, then when next you upgrade, you'll be
able to run "make oldconfig".  It's glass-TTY, but makes it trivial
to retain existing config options.


Holy smokes.  What is all this about?  No one on Debian should be
building a kernel like this unless they have a really good reason.
Install kernel-package and read the documentation or check out this
site: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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