[NTLUG:Discuss] Upgrading Kenrel

[Stuart Johnston]

Debian 3.0 supports kernel 2.4.  You should be able to install it with a 
simple:

apt-get install kernel-image-2.4

This won't necessarily solve your problems, though.  You might want to 
consider upgrading to Debian Sarge.  Either with apt-get or a fresh 
install with the linux2.6 option:

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

For full support of your nvidia you will probably want to install 
packages from:

http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/index.php


Tom Hayden 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:
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>>> 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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