Re: stupid question

[Michiel van Es <michiel.v@n-es.nl>]

Blake Swadling wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 12:56 +0200, Michiel van Es wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am new to Debian and read the FAQ's and howto's but I do not get one 
> > thing.
> > I want to install the latest kernel update..how do I accomplish this?
> > Is ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get distupgrade but I 
> > still have the default bf24 kernel:
> > Linux server 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > How do I update/upgrade my old kernel to the latest secure kernel with apt?
> > This is my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> > deb http://www.debian.nl/debian stable main contrib non-free
> > deb http://www.debian.nl/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb http://www.debian.nl/debian-security stable/updates main contrib 
> > non-free
>
> Michiel
>
> for kernel upgrade try
>
> blake@raider:~$ apt-cache search kernel-image-2.6.10 | grep 686
> kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.10 on 
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4.
> kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6.10 on 
> PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4 SMP.
>
> If you have a multi processor machine, or one that supports 
> hyperthreading (?) install the latter
>     apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686-smp
>
> other wise install the first one
>     apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686

So I search for the newest kernel with apt-cache search kernel-image | 
grep 686

I installed the  apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
package for Woody and grabbed the one from the security source..so 
that's ok?
I then answered to everyhting 'yes' (overwrite modules etc - I do not 
have any special drivers or such).
Rerun lilo and now I have the latest up2date kernel when I reboot?

Thanks for your help.
And Does anyone know how I get the softlimit tool?
I can not find it anywhere and Qmail uses it..:(

> Cheers
> Blake

Michiel
>