On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:53:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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).
Actually looking more carefull these instructions for installing the kernel source. Usefull if you want to compile your own kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
