kernel 2.6.2
 

Hi,

I want to upgrade my 2.6.0 kernel to 2.6.2. At kernel.org, it seems to be a patch. Can someone give me a few pointers or resources about upgrading with a patch?

thanks

ok, never mind about that. Rather than apply patches up to 2.6.2, I'm just going to download and install 2.6.2 from source.

Just for the future you would use in the source directory
patch -p1 ../patch-x.x.x.bx2.
x.x.x if for the version. That does assume your patch is in the directory above the source.

Mike

thanks

by the way, can anyone tell me how to remove a kernel?

i assume you mean kernel source, in which case you can just rm the entire dir

well speaking of the patching, you stated that you have 2.6.0, and want to go to 2.6.2 so if you did in fact resort to patching, you would have to patch 2.6.0 to 2.6.1 and then 2.6.1 to 2.6.2 ...

hi,

yea, i realized that too so I decided to just compile my own 2.6.2. What I really meant by "remove the kernel" is uninstall an older kernel on my system. Right now I have 2.4.21, 2.4.22 and 2.6.0 on my system. I'd like to uninstall some of them. how do i do it?

rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.6.0
rm -rf /usr/src/linux-2.4.22
.......

You get the idea. You can also go to /boot and delete files that reference your old kernels.

since we are talking about kernels i might as well ask this:
i have installed debian sid(installed woody and apt-get dist-upgraded'd it).
i then compiled kernel 2.6.1 but i get a kernel VFS panic...i think this is becasue the modules for ext2 are inbuild into 2.6.1 and the debian woody install wont let me chooose anything other than ext2.
can someone tell me what i can do about this...i can post the exact error i get if someone needs it.
thanks