Hi Rob,
I'm not actually a Debian user, but I play one in the UMLUG
listserv...which is to say I run Ubuntu (which is based off debian). I
think you should be able to get a 2.6 kernel with the command:
apt-get install linux-image-2.6-486
Of course, you'll need superuser privledges to run apt-get. You can
choose a different architecture, of course. Check out this list:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?suite=testing&subword=1&exact=&arch=any§ion=main&case=insensitive&keywords=linux-image-2.6&searchon=names&page=1&number=50
Or else try
apt-cache --names-only search linux-image-2.6 | less
Like I say, I don't run vanilla debian, so take all that with a grain of
salt.
Nick
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Rob Sherwood wrote:
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
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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.
