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Old 10-23-2006, 04:10 PM   #1
pwc101
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upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 after upgrade from 10.2 to 11.0


I've just sucessfully upgraded from 10.2 to 11.0 (don't know how I managed to not break something!). However, when I was on 10.2, I had installed the 2.6 kernel from testing following this guide.

I essentially have 2 questions:

1. Does the procedure outlined in that howto still apply with slack 11.0?
2. I had a problem with alsa, in that I had to install the alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486-1.tgz package. I've had a look in extra and I see there's a 2.6 kernel package there, but I don't see the alsa drivers. Am I right in assuming, therefore, that if I use the new kernel package, I won't have to install the alsa drivers separately?

Any thoughts welcome
 
Old 10-23-2006, 04:43 PM   #2
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Alsa is included in the 2.6 series kernel modules package as you suspected.

The guide should still work, but you may prefer to use the 2.6.17.x kernel in /extra to the 2.6.18 one in /testing

Remember that udev has changed a lot so you check that you are using the latest rc.udev script. If you have a rc.udev.new in /etc/rc.d replace the old rc.udev with it. Do this before you upgrade the kernel.

Last edited by Eternal_Newbie; 10-23-2006 at 04:45 PM.
 
Old 10-23-2006, 04:52 PM   #3
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brilliant

I ran the little script Pat wrote in the upgrade.txt file, so all my .new files have been appropriately renamed and are in use now; all my old conf files are .bak's.

I shall upgrade now... fingers crossed...
 
  


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