I currently am running Debian Sarge (2.4.27 kernel) on an old Abit BE6-II motherboard with a Pentium III processor. The board appears to be failing now with frequent freezes, so a new motherboard (ECS RS482-M) and cpu (AMD Athlon 64) have been acquired.
However, the new motherboard has an intergrated graphics chip (ATI Express 200) and an ATI SB400 south bridge. This hardware requires at least a 2.6.11 kernel to work. It has been proposed to set up a 32 bit version of a 2.6 kernel from backports and first run it on the old motherboard to check that this 2.6 kernel works okay. The hardware would then be updated and then the 2.6 kernel would be run on the new hardware. I don't know a great deal about Linux, so would appreciate help with the following questions : (a) Can I download the 2.6 kernel from backports on to a CDROM and boot the old hardware from that ? (I would leave the old 2.4.27 kernel untouched, so that I could also boot the old hardware with the 2.4 kernel). The kernel I was thinking of downloading is :- linux-image-2.6.16-1-686_2.6.16-11bpo1_i386.deb or possibly linux-image-2.6.17-2-686_2.6.17-9~bpo.1_i386.deb Would either of these be okay ? I want to later upgrade to Etch, so I don't want to get a kernel version greater than the version that the stable Etch will have. (b) Assuming the 2.6 kernel from backports works okay on the new hardware, is it then possible to upgrade the new hardware in the normal way (i.e using apt) to the stable version of Etch (which, I understand will have a 2.6.18 kernel) when that is released ? Any help with the above problem would be much appreciated. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]