On 11-jun-2006, at 20:19, Joris Huizer wrote:
Installed a new kernel just the other day using GRUB. GRUB is simply taken care of by the installer script. After the install you reboot and GRUB presents you with a list of all the installed kernels, including the newly installed.Sam Rosenfeld wrote:I am using Debian Sarge with a 2.4.27 linux kernel. To replace thiskernel with a late 2.6 kernel, is it a simple apt-get install? If so, is there any danger of wiping out parts of my home directory? If it's not asimple apt-get install, is there a suitable HOWTO?It's a simple apt-get install, and, at least when using lilo, you'll probably need to add a few lines in the /etc/lilo.conf file, followed by running /sbin/lilo -- if no changes are needed to the confige, you'll have to run /sbin/lilo tooI don't know what needs to change when using GRUB.
After you've checked that your new kernel works fine, you could just deinstall the older ones if needed using apt or aptitude. I've noticed that there are special kernel images that have a sort of serialnumber like 101sarge1 that probably cause the most recent kernels to be installed by depending on them within apt. I don't know if they can also safely be removed. Someone else may comment on that.
Peter