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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?
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.
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 ...
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?
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
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