So, despite being a redhat user for longer then I care to mention, I've decided to check out debian on my laptop. Before I remembered my friend Greg's joke (see title, Hi Greg), I installed debian stable. It has a 2.4 kernel, which is bad b/c it doesn't support my wireless card.
Undaunted by 4 year old software and kernels, I quickly decided to upgrade to etch, the soon-to-be release upgrade to sarge. So after some reading, I did s/stable/etch/g in /etc/apt/source.list, and `aptitude update; aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade` Which came up with a bunch of unresolved conflicts, which I was able to resolve, probably badly... and so after a fairly lengthy time of installing packages and what not, the kernel is still 2.4 :-( I am fairly sure that Etch includes the 2.6 kernel, but I cannot come up with the right invocation of aptitude to make it happen. It keeps coming up with "No packages will be installed, upgraded or removed" for all variants of: aptitude upgrade kernel-image aptitude upgrade kernel-image=2.6.15 aptitude upgrade kernel-image/etch aptitude upgrade kernel-image/testing Can anyone point me to the "debian correct" way of upgrading the kernel? - Rob . PS Pls don't respond with "if you only used distro XXX, this would be easy". I don't care. I want to learn how to make it work with debian, broken or not. Maybe one day I will get annoyed and learn your favorite distro for the same reason.
