Hi Tom On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Tom Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran 'apt-get dist-upgrade' on my Debian Slug today for the first time > in a while just to see if there is an upgrade available and it wants to > upgrade from my 2.6.18-5 kernel to 2.6.18-6. Is the 2.6.28-6-ixp4xx > kernel a safe upgrade? I seem to remember some talk a while back about > a broken ethernet driver disabling a slug after a kernel upgrade. I am > trying to avoid that aweful fate. Any feedback or answers is welcome.
2.6.28-6-ixp4xx should be fine (I haven't had any problems). If you want, you can always backup the flash with > sudo cat /dev/mtdblock* > backup.img and then copy this flash to your PC. If anything goes wrong with the upgrade, you can then use upslug2 [1] to reflash the NSLU2 the image stored in backup.img. To do this, you would 1. Put the NSLU2 into upgrade mode [2]. 2. On the PC run 'upslug2 -i backup.img' [1] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Main/UpSlug2 [2] http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/UseTheResetButtonToEnterUpgradeMode I hope that this helps. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson GnuPG Key ID: 32D6D676 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
