> > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +0000, Victor wrote: > > > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > > > working greatly and stable. > > > > > > My simple question is: > > > > > > Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4.5? > > > > If you're happy with what you have now then I would say there is no real > > reason to. OTOH you could install a 2.4.x kernel and try it out and > > still keep your old kernel around to fall back on, if you don't like > > 2.4.x. You just have to edit /etc/lilo.conf to point to both kernels. > > Run /sbin/lilo. On boot hit "tab" and pick your kernel. > > hth, > > kent
There are some utils packages that should be upgraded at the same time as the kernel. To do it as transparently as possible, use the Bunk site in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Those files are numbered in such a way as to automatically become obsolete when proper 2.4 support is added to Debian "stable". # 2.4 kernel deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main
