Re: Etch status..?

[Alan Ianson <agianson@gmail.com>]

On Tue November 21 2006 13:47, cga2000 wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 06:19:05AM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > cga2000 wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 12:27:23PM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > >> I guess you have a fair chance to give it a try.
>
> [..]
>
> Well here's how it went:
>
> Etch netinst:  same problem - he can't find my network card.
>
> So, I tried plan B:
>
> Sarge netinst: worked just fine.
>
> dist-upgrade:  OK. It did not mess my network connectivity either.
>
> So am I happy now with my bran new etch..?
>
> Well not quite ..
>
> I did notice that I'm still running the sarge 2.4.27 kernel instead of
> the 2.6.17 that's in the etch repository..
>
> Is this "normal" .. or did my dist-upgrade run into a problem and decide
> not to upgrade to a more recent kernel?

Yes, you have the latest 2.4 kernel. You could upgrade to a 2.6 kernel if you 
wanted too, look for linux-image-???.