[Sussex] debian control panel

Desmond Armstrong desmond.armstrong at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 15:16:50 UTC 2006


I have 2.4.27 kernel and the message I have from doing
#apt-get install kernel-image |  2.6 is
#bash 2.6: command not found.
I have started in recovery mode and entered root password.
I should get the 2.6 kernel in with source before I attempt the nvidia 
setup again


Ronan Chilvers wrote:

>Hi Desmond
>
>On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:57:02AM +0100, Desmond Armstrong wrote:
>  
>
>>I am a small tad further forward.
>>I have downloaded the driver from Nvidia but, I need the kernel source.
>>I need to update kernel to 2.6 and also require the source, how do I 
>>install these?
>>    
>>
>
>Which kernel are you using?  You shouldn't need the whole source tree, just the
>headers.  I found this howto for nvidia on Sarge:
>
>http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt
>
>Don't know if that helps?  Its a little cryptic...
>
>The main sarge repository has several 2.6.x kernels available:
>
>apt-cache search kernel-image | grep 2.6
>
>and the source package for each
>
>apt-cache search kernel-source | grep 2.6
>
>You can just apt-get the one you fancy.
>
>Does that help at all?
>
>:-S
>
>Cheers
>  
>
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