On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 08:19:41 CST, "Preston Boyington" writes: >I haven't seen a minimum, but I was wondering since there are a couple >of 133's here with 32meg of ram that I want to update. They are >currently running kernel 2.2.20 which I want to upgrade to whatever is >the latest kernel-image available (adding a wireless card to one and it >was suggested I upgrade the kernel).
32 MB are plenty for Debian itself. I'm running Woody on an i386SX 16
MHz with 4 MB RAM without problems (installing was another matter, as
the installer needs more RAM).
>Also, are any "gotchas" I need to be aware of with this kernel
>migration? Current Googling only speaks of adding a line in
>/etc/lilo.conf to say "initrd=/initrd.img" (sans quotes) but I am
>still looking.
The 2.4 kernel-images use initrd (initial RAM-disk), which means that
you'll have to make the proper entry in lilo.conf. But the upgrade
process will remind you of that anyway ;)
image=/vmlinuz
label=Debian
initrd=/initrd.img
read-only
is what it'll look like.
>Worst case I want to be able to boot the old kernel if I fudge up the
>2.4 install.
Just run `mkboot` prior to upgrading, then you can always boot from
floppy in case something breaks.
cheers,
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