Re: Upgrading the kernel

[kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>]

Paul E Condon wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:51:25PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
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> > Bill Marcum wrote:
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> > > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:01:24AM -0500, Ian wrote:
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> > > > I installed Sarge on my machine a while back, and since I'm not extremely 
> > > > familiar with my hardware specs and what not I used genkernel (gasp) to 
> > > > build my kernel. For some reason though it installed a 2.4 kernel instead 
> > > > of 2.6. How can I upgrade my kernel with out reinstalling or compiling my 
> > > > kernel myself?
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> > > aptitude install linux-image-2.6
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> > The OP is using sarge. AFAIK, Sarge does not have linux-image-2.6.
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> > raju
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> I think you are mistaken. I see kernel-image-2.6.8 in aptitude on a
> machine which has only stable in its sources.list . 
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Sarge has kernel-image-2.6.8 . But does it have linux-image-2.6 as Bill 
Marcum has suggested? AFAIK linux-image-2.6 is introduced from 2.6.12 
onwards and is not available in Sarge.

raju

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