On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:41:58PM -0500, Dave Goel wrote: > Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am fairly sure that Etch includes the 2.6 kernel, > > My understanding is that both sarge (stable) and etch include 2.6. I > use sarge with 2.6. BTW, the way to install 2.6 by default during the > install is to switch to the linux26 mode. > > Now that you are in sarge (or etch) with 2.4, you can install 2.6 by > simply apt-get installing the appropriate package.
The "appropriate" package was not clear : If I want to upgrade foo, I should just run `$apt upgrade foo`, where $apt is your choice of apt-get, aptitude or what have you[1]. That was not the case here. I even tried (as you must have read in my mail) `$apt upgrade foo/version` and a host of variants to no avail. But, it turns out that with the case of the kernel, "foo" is a virtual package, and can't be upgraded this way and I had to do as Nick suggested (thanks Nick) and do `$apt install bar`, (bar="foo-version") because the debian people keep mixing version numbers into their package names for some unknown reason. IIRC, kernel-image-2.4 and kernel-image-2.6 are totally different packages, as opposed to two different versions of the same package. This is dumb. - Rob . [1] All of the docs say that aptitude is the currently bless thing, so I've been using that.
