w trillich wrote: > > Vitux wrote: > > > > UMUM wrote: > > > > > > Is it safe for me to upgrade to Linux kernel 2.2.14 yet? > > > > > > I've just upgraded from slink/stable to potato/frozen, but kept my old > > > 2.0.38 kernel. > > > > I'd say it would be h*** of a good idea to upgrade your > > kernel. Running 2.2.14 myself, I find it very stable, and very > > fast. Also, some of the older kernels are known to have a > > fs-corruption bug (there was a thread about it a few days > > ago). > > # apt-get install kernel-image\* > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > kernel-image-2.0.36 <SNIP> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > # > > i saw someone recommend > apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.14 > > how would a newbie determine which kernel-image is > best to apt-get? (i'm at 2.0.36 on i586)
Recently a newbie myself, I picked the latest stable kernel available at the time I had decided to upgrade my kernel. This turned out to be the 2.2.14, which is also the one used in potato. I found out later that this was a lucky choice; someone on the list (not long ago) mentioned that almost all other kernels, and especially the older ones, have a bug which corrupts your fs very slowly. What I did was go to kernel.org and download the 16Mb tarball, put it in /usr/src and untar it. It creates a dir /linux, in which there is a README, containing detailed instructions. So I guess what I did was a manual install, which is really quite easy. Haven't figured out how to do it the Debian way, yet... HTH Vitux -- "I'm not a crook" Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
