On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:57:44PM -0600, Bruno Melli wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I just upgraded (from CD) my 1.3 system to 2.1. > After installing 1.3 a couple of years ago I haven't done much > sysadmin so I'm a little rusty when it comes to kernel > configuration... > > Everything seems to have updated OK but I'm puzzled that the machine > was never rebooted during the upgrade. > What is the mechanism to upgrade the kernel ? (I haven't > kept up to speed with kernel version but I assume 2.1 uses a newer > kernel than 1.3 did...) > > Does it mean that I have to upgrade the kernel sources and rebuild one > (as well as making a new boot disk ?)
no, just install newest slink kernel-image-x.x.xx deb package, configure your lilo.conf to allow you boot both your present (in case something goes wrong) and the upgraded kernel, rerun lilo and reboot. that's it :) -- -------------------------------- Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------
