On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Dear Debian folks,
>
> I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
>
> Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> uname says that I am running the 2.4.27-2 kernel. During the installation
> the installer
> decided to use this kernel not 2.6.8. The reason for this flashed by screen
> rather quickly
> but maybe it was some hardware issue.....
This is the default kernel for sarge. For 2.6 you should have writen
'linux26' at the prompt.
> What would be a good way to check this out? I am interested to upgrade the
> kernel because I
> am interested to install a SATA hard drive and some of them might prefer to
> be installed with
> a 2.6 kernel if I understand it correctly.
But that still doesn't guarantee it will work. Some controllers want
newer kernel than the one in sarge.
> Does anyone know what the latest kernel currently is? Where does one
> download it from? I
> looked on the web for guides to installing it and found that the instructions
> instructions on
> this are quite varied.
>
> Here is one example.....
>
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.17-6-686 kernel-source-2.6.17
> kernel-headers-2.6.17-6-686
> cd /usr/src
> tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2
> rm linux
> ln -s kernel-source-2.6.17 linux
These are instructions to compile a kernel the "generic" way (should
work on any distro).
First you should try installing the kernel available in sarge. Use
aptitude install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7
or if you want to always have the latest kernel available in sarge then
aptitude install kernel-image-2.6-k7
If that one doesn't work than you could try www.backports.org, but if
you go beyond a certain version (2.6.12?) you will have to upgrade other
stuff as well. Either way read the instructions at backports very careful.
HTH,
Andrei
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