Re: instructions for switching to kernel 2.6 on Debian Sarge?

I didn't think there was much more to it than just doing a
apt-get intall kernel-image-2.6.8

When I did my net-install I arbitrarily chose a 2.6 kernel
from which to install, and found that I had both a 2.4 and
a 2.6 kernel installed at the end of it.

I can switch between the two kernels with no more than a
reboot. So I think the most you would need to do is to
perhaps go through and make sure all of your drivers
still work (my PCMCIA for 2.4 wasn't originally installed)

Regards,
DigbyT

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:47:00PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote:
Where are instructions on how to upgrade to kernel 2.6 (ideally,
specifically in Debian's Sarge release)?

The instructions I've found so far are quite sketchy. (For example,
although I have found instructions that tell me that my mouse is no
longer at /dev/psaux but is now at /dev/input/mouse (or .../mouse0
or .../mice), they don't say what all I need to do to get /dev/input
or /dev/input/mouse to appear in the first place.)

Are there any Debian-specific instructions out there (e.g., specifying
which packages (beside udev and its prerequisites) I need to install
and what other changes I might need to make (e.g., mounting new special
file systems (/sys? /dev?), dropping or changing old special filesystems
or real directoryes (/dev?), etc))?

If not, are they any non-Debian-specific instructions that explain
what all is needed?

(This is for a fairly basic desktop system--non-USB keyboard and
mouse, USB only for camera and other lower-priority devices.)

Thanks,
Daniel



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