"John Purser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good Morning, > > I installed Woody but the output from uname says that I'm running kernel > 2.2.19. I'd like to upgrade my Kernel to 2.4. I've run "apt-get > dist-upgrade" but uname still says I'm running 2.2.19. >
dist-upgrade (and upgrade) won't upgrade the kernel automatically because the different kernel versions are different packages. This is done on purpose... first so that people have to make the decision to upgrade explicitly and, second, so that multiple kernels can be installed (there may be more reasons, I suppose). > QUESTIONS: > What kernel is woody supposed to be running? Did I do something wrong in > the installation? > I believe the current default on woody is 2.2.19 so, no, nothing is wrong with your installation (in that respect, at least). > How do I get to a 2.4 kernel? Should I download the kernel and install it > (the debian way of course) or is there a good reason not to do this? > woody currently has 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 from the 2.4 series. Search for kernel-image on http://packages.debian.org and run apt-get install kernel-image-<add-version-and-processor> with the packages that best suits your needs and computer. For instance, I just installed kernel-image-2.4.9-686 on my PIII 500 and PII 233 machines (look at the package descriptions for more information). HTH
