Hi,
New kernels aren't automatically installed when they appear in stable
(or anywhere on the archives) - they're not marked as a new version of a
single 'kernel-image' package, instead each new kernel revision is placed
into it's own package.
If you want to upgrade your kernel, you have to do it explicitly ("apt-get
install kernel-image-2.2.19" for the current latest kernel in stable).
_That_ will require you to reboot to use the new kernel that it installs,
but it won't ask you any driver configuration questions - your existing ones
should work fine.
- Kevin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user list" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: Kernel - testing to stable
> Hi,
>
> I have been with Debian (and Linux) a few months now, and I am making
> progress, but it is all still pretty new, but I can see that I am here
> at a time when the "stable" package is going to upgrade shortly. I have
> avoided "unstable" and "testing" because I would be out of my depth with
> any problems, but when change comes I shall want to go to the "new
> stable".
>
> Now with sources.list pointing at "stable", when "testing" becomes
> "stable" I will have access to the new packages, I understand this, but
> it seems to me that the kernel is different.
>
> My "stable" is based around 2.2.17, if the new "stable" is based around
> 2.2.2x, or 2.4.x, then how does apt-get dist-upgrade deal with a new
> "stable" kernel?
>
> Will it just download and install the new one, give driver module
> options, then ask for a reboot. I know it is coming in the near future,
> so I thought I would get some information on how it is done in the
> Debian world.
>
> When I ran windows, at each change (3.1, 3.11 wfw, 95, 98, NT4, 2000)
> each release was best served by wiping the lot off and starting from
> scratch, but it seems that that is not the way it is done here. How does
> it work
>
> Keith
>
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