On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 06:24:31AM -0800, michael bailey wrote: > I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) > on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III > processor. The board appears to be failing now with > frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) > and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired. marko is right, you should be able to install the 2.6 kernel without removing the 2.4 kernel. I think what you need to check into however is whether the backported kernel uses udev. This is a critical change the could make your 2.4 kernel not usable (others can hopefully speak to this more accurately). [...]> > Any help with the above problem would be much > appreciated. > with all due respect, why not just install etch fresh instead of going through all these permutations? It would be faster and easier. just repartition yourself enough space to run a basic etch install, install etch from that partition, but don't set up the bootloader. Reboot (or chroot) into sarge to tweak grub or lilo .conf and away you go. thenyou can run them in parallel until your ready to switch. .02 A
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