Abrasive wrote: > Hi all. I downloaded the file: kernel-source-2.4.20_2.4.20-8_all.deb > then ran dpkg -i kernel-source-2.4.20_2.4.20-8_all.deb > However, I'm still loading the kernel 2.2.x > Did I skip a step, or did I miss something entirely?
Oops. The kernel-source is not the kernel-image. You did not load a kernel to boot from. You loaded up the kernel source which may then be used to either build your own kernel or build additional kernel modules or whatever. A good thing to have around, along with kernel-headers, but apparently not what you wanted. Taking an example from one of my machines, an athlon k7, you want to load "kernel-image-2.4.20-2-k7". Pick the appropriate kernel for your architecture. Since I am running woody/stable and wanted to stay there I temporarily added the following to my sources.list in order to easily install the new kernel. Then commented it out again after the installation was done. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ woody-proposed-updates main non-free contrib Following the directions for the installation I installed an initrd kernel and added "initrd=/initrd.img" to my /etc/lilo.conf file. This is all as directed in the instructions but they are a little compactly written on the screen and so I mention it here so that you will be prepared for it. Bob
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