On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 01:23:28AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> [...] Now for > >> particular needs I want to try to use Sid with a > = 2.6.25-2-686 kernel. > > > > I edited sources.list as follows: > > >> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > >> deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main > > > , then connected to internet and did: > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > , but still the kernel is the old 2.6.18-4-k7! Why that, and can I have the > damned new kernel on the system? because new kernels are not automatically installed. You need to specify a specific kernel to install *or* install a kernel meta-package. I recommend you install linux-image-2.6-686 that package will track the latest kernel, more or less. and yes, that's -686. There are no -k7 kernels anymore. A
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