[Gllug] Debian install from a SCSI CD-R drive

[John Hearns]

On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 00:39, rich at annexia.org wrote:

> I seem to have hit on a goldmine of Debian information however :-)
> My next question is, what's the recommended way to upgrade the
> kernel? For some reason, doing an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' never
> updates the kernel (possibly a good thing). Do I really need
> to search out the appropriate packages by hand and 'apt-get install'
> each one?

Rich, I'm not claiming any expertise here.
You'll probably find that the kernel packages are excluded from your
updates - have a look in the /etc/apt configuration files.
apt-get also has a nice facility for 'pinning' so you can say that a
package is only to be kept between certain release numbers.



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