Re: Install New Kernel - How do I?

2005-09-13 Thread lordSauron
I checked the list and it looks alright. Thanks for your help! I'm really enjoying Debian and all its functionality (screams of "Cripes! It actually WORKS!" are common from my direction now - I'm an old Windows user) and am sure spread the word of Linux to all my friends. Thanks for you help, a

Re: Install New Kernel - How do I?

2005-09-13 Thread lordSauron
On 9/12/05, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grub allows you to choose between different kernels, as per its > configuration file. Only the kernel that you want to use needs to exist. > Its usually a good idea to keep the old kernel around, at least until > you verify that the new one works. But

Re: Install New Kernel - How do I?

2005-09-12 Thread lordSauron
so... I already have grub (lucky me) and it already is my default boot loader. So, do those commands to change kernels, are they just options of kernels to boot? So, I specify to grub that the amd64-k8 kernel is the one I want to use default, start using it, then I can just remove the old kernel

Install New Kernel - How do I?

2005-09-12 Thread lordSauron
forgive me - I'm very new to linux. I have a AMD Athlon64 3000+ chip, and I just installed Debian linux with kernel version 2.4.27-2 i386, so my chip is running in 32-bit emulation mode (to the best of my knowledge) I'd like to install the 2.6.8-11 amd64-k8 kernel, however, and use it. I tried t