[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrading Kenrel

[Tom Hayden]

I am currently using Debian 3.0 R4 I3. The Kernel is 2.2.20. My computer 
is an HP pavilion a450n. It has a Pentium 4 at 3 GHz. I have 2 160 Gb 
hard drives, 1 with Windows XP on it and the other with Linux on it. (I 
use lilo for multi-boot). It has an NVidia 5200 graphics card and a 
USRobotics 5610 PCI modem. Neither the Nvidia or the PCI modem is 
supported by Linux 2.2.XX. There also appears to be an issue with the 
sound card. I need/want to upgrade the kernel to take care of these 
hardware issues and any others I am unaware of.
	I went to www.linux.org and saw 2 complete linux kernels, 2.4.30 and 
2.6.11.7. From the discussion at the last NTLUG meeting I am lead to 
believe that, since the last 2 numbers are odd, 2.6.11.7 is not truly 
stable.  I down loaded 2.4.30 and started to read the documentation. It 
listed several other packages I need to down load in order to compile 
the kernel. I located all of them and started to read the documentation 
only to found references to other packages I am not sure are in my 
distribution. Also, the installation procedures for these various 
packages are not always clear. I also found what appears to be 2 
different installation/compilation procedures for the kernel it's self. 
I am afraid I am going to get into an endless cycle of hunting down ever 
more software packages with ever more confusing instructions. Any 
guidance I can get will be appreciated.

Ralph Green, Jr. wrote:
> Howdy,
>   A little more information on your system would be in order here.  I am
> sure you could find the kernel sources, but there is probably more to it
> than that.  A newer kernel usually goes along with newer libraries, such
> as glibc.  The more we know, the better your answer will be.
>   Are you running debian stable, or just a really old distro?  What
> drives your need to go to the 2.4 kernel?  Should you just go to the 2.6
> kernel, which is the current stable version of Linux?  Lots of other
> questions occur to me, but I don't know enough about your needs to know
> which ones to ask.
> Good luck,
> Ralph
> 
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 00:51 -0500, Tom Hayden wrote:
> 
>>I have determined that I need to upgrade my Kernel from version 2.2 to 
>>version 2.4. What is the best way to do this?
> 
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