On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Patrick Dahiroc wrote: : hi : : i'm thinking of upgrading to Potato - from what i've read is that Potato is : pretty safe to use - i realize that i need to upgrade my kernel to do this. : If is give the commands : root> apt-get update : root> apt-get dist-upgrade : with the sources.list pointing to unstable. will this automatically get the : 2.2.? kernel and go through the configuration process. or do i have to get : the latest kernel first configure it and then run the apt-get commands.
Well, there are pre-compiled kernel images ... so you could do an apt-get install kernel-image-<version_you_want> Alternatively you could install the kernel source and create your own package. apt-get install kernel-package kernel-source-<version_you_want> cd /usr/src tar xIf kernel-source-<version_you_want>.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-<version_you_want> make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=`hostname`.<version_you_want>-1 Following these steps you'll find a kernel-image deb file in /usr/src; install it using `dpkg -i', run lilo, and reboot. HTH, -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
