The Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:37:24 Andrei Popescu, you wrote : > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 16:23:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib > > > > > > See http://www.debian.org/mirror for a complete list of mirrors and > > > choose one close to you. > > > > I put that line in /etc/sources.list, then connected to internet and did: > > > > # apt-get update > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > . The process took a long time, then I rebooted. But when I do `uname > > -r' I still get the same output as before: 2.6.18-4-k7. How is that > > possible? I wanted to upgrade to Lenny just to upgrade the kernel... > > You probably didn't have any kernel metapackage installed or because > there are no more k7 kernels. Try installing linux-image-2.6-686, this > will always pull the latest 2.6 kernel. Old kernels have to be removed > by hand. > > If you have an AMD64 processor you might want to try the -amd64 kernel > as well. > > Regards, > Andrei
Or even install linux-image-686 / linux-image-k8 which will install the latest kernel (So you'll be ready in 15 years if Linux become 2.8 ;)) -- Thomas Preud'homme Why debian : http://www.debian.org/intro/why_debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]