On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:54:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I did an upgrade recently just using apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade and I > figured this would upgrade my kernel as well. Nope.
kernel upgrades are independent of distribution.
> So that's my goal... what do I do to update to the newest kernel
> Debian's got on their FTP?
If you want to use a compiled image:
$ apt-get install kernel-image
If you prefer to roll your own:
$ apt-get install kernel-source
...and man make-kpkg.
> Also, as a side note, when I upgraded, kbd was held back. I used dpkg
> -r kbd and then apt-get install kbd. That deleted the file
> kbd-console and put in the files <something>-console (now I can't
> remember, I think it was system-console or something like that) and a
> new kbd file. I don't even really know what kbd is, but I figured it
> would probably like to be upgraded as much as everything else. So any
> help on that one as well is much appreciated, thanks!
kbd is a set of keyboard and console utilities.
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