At 12:23 am, Monday, November 19 2001, Simon Wong mumbled: > Ok, thought I'd better start a new thread since this is no longer about > Ximian packages... > Bad voodoo! Bad!
> When upgrading from Potato to Woody/Sid, how does apt/dpkg deal with the
> kernel?
>
It doesn't. When upgrading, or dist-upgrading, apt (dselect, dpkg) all leave
the kernel well alone so you can upgrade it yourself.
> I know it's 2.4.x there but what happens to any kernel changes you've
> made? Will they be lost or can the kernel be updated later?
>
You know, 2.2 is still in woody. :-)
> I ask because I have had a lot of problems with trying to compile
> kernels and having non-existent modules hang my system on reboot forcing
> me to reinstall (though I think I can avoid doing that now).
>
Reinstalling because of a machine hanging on reboot ... !?
I think I'll leave that well alone.
> I also have a winmodem that works when you can compile the module but I
> am forever having problems with mismatched header errors.
>
Ick. Ick. Ick.
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