Re: question about patching my kernel

[John Summerfield]

Ignore Andreas - there is noting wrong with top-posting (or 
bottom-posting), and I've seen people flamed for not top-posting!

However, I do think it wrong to cc: people who're on the list. I can't 
speak for others, but I prefer one copy.

You're running Woody and Debian doesn't support any 2.6 kernel on it. 
Someone whose surname is, I think,  Bunt or Bunk has created  a set of 
packages you can download to install a 2.6 kernel on Woody, and there's 
quite a deal of additional stuff  you need special versions of.

You didn't explain what you hope to gain by running a 2.6 kernel.

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
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Paul Akkermans wrote:
Paul
   

Hi everone,
Last week I installed my debian system with a cd-rom I got from a friend.
     

When I was installing Debian I saw that the kernel which was included on the
cd-rom was version 2.22. From the website www.kernel.org I saw that version
(the stable version) 2.6.7 is available. But the problem is that I have no
idea how to upgrade my kernel. Can somebody tell me what steps I have to
take to patch my kernel?
 

     

2.22 isn't very likely.
At a commandline, enter these commands and post the results:
uname -a
cat /etc/debian_version
This will tell folk here which kernel and version of Debian you have.
You might also explain to us what your kernel does not do that you
expect 2.6.7 to do. It's quite possible that your system won't work if
you don't go about upgrading your kernel properly, and for most people,
whatever the distro, a kernel from kernel.org is probably a mistake.
While you're waiting for anwers, you might also browse www.debian.org
where you will find all sorts of info about maintenance, upgrading your
software and building your own kernel.
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