Hi > Wow, Tom is right but kernel recompile is the more painful way. I have > gone through this pain of upgrading for my i486DX2 gateway.
Why compiling kernel is painful???? I belive he have relatively new laptop with strong CPU a lot of ram, Hardware shoud not be a problem, any way if u have slow pc u can always use other stronger (other desktop, ya friends pc etc) to make a kernel and modules and install it on ya pc. Knowledge? hmmm that can be a problem, but I believe most of ppl if not all use linux have to learn new stuff, well then this shoud not be a big problem......