[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrading Kenrel

[Terry]

See: http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050101



On 4/28/05, Tom Hayden <tom.hayden.iii at mail.airmail.net> wrote:
> 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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