On Saturday 24 July 2004 07:46 am, Paul Akkermans wrote: > uname -a > Linux debian 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002 i686 unknown > > cat /etc/debian_version > 3.0 The basic procedure. Ask if you have any questions. 1. Download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2 2. Untar the archive tar xjvf linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2 3. Change directories into the archive cd linux-2.6.7 4. Configure the kernel make menuconfig Note: you will be presented with lots of options. Select the ones that match your computers hardware configuration. 5. Build the kernel make 6. Become superuser and copy the relevent files to /boot cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.6.7 cp .config /boot/config-2.6.7 cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 7. Copy any modules you built to /lib/modules make modules_install 8. Point your bootloader to the new kernel image For lilo you need to edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a stanza like: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 label=2.6.7 alias=linux 9. Run lilo to update the boot record lilo 10. Reboot and have fun -- David Sanders
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