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.
However, the new motherboard has an intergrated graphics chip (ATI Express 200) and an ATI SB400 south bridge. This hardware requires at least a 2.6.11 kernel to work. It has been proposed to set up a 32 bit version of the latest 2.6 kernel from Debian Etch, as a stable release of Etch is due in December, on the new motherboard. However on reading the release notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (`etch') for an 'x86' architecture(http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html), the following advice was found :- Chapter 5 - Issues to be aware of for etch) 5.2 Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel The 2.6 kernel series contains major changes from the 2.4 series. Modules have been renamed and a lot of drivers have been partially or sometimes almost completely rewritten. Upgrading to a 2.6 kernel from an earlier version is therefore not a process to be undertaken lightly. This section aims to make you aware of some of the issues you may face. You are therefore strongly advised not to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel as part of the upgrade from sarge to etch. Instead, you should first make sure your system works correctly with either the old kernel or with a 2.4 kernel from etch and do the upgrade to a 2.6 kernel later as a separate project. So, it appears that I should first upgrade from the current Sarge 2.4.27 kernel to a 2.4 Etch kernel, then from the 2.4 Etch kernel to a 2.6 Etch kernel. The problem I face is that a 2.4 kernel does not work on the new motherboard. So does that mean I will first have to set up the 2.4 and 2.6 Etch kernels on the old Abit motherboard and then transfer the system to the new motherboard, or is there a simpler way ? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
