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There are mainly two reasons why people wants to upgrade their kernels:
As you are reading this page, you have probably been recommended by Debian-Edu/Skolelinux to upgrade your kernel due to security reasons. In the rest of this document, we assume that you are using Debian-Edu/Skolelinux, and wants to upgrade your kernel due to a security threat and use a new kernel package located in our package repositories.
First of all, you have to make sure that your computer has the
following line (or similar) present in the
/etc/apt/sources.list-file (make sure there's no "#"
in the beginning of the line):
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main
Now you have to find which flavor of the kernel you are
running. Do this with the command uname -r (examples:
386, 586tsc, 686, 686-smp, k6, k7, k7-smp).
We assume that you know the name of the kernel-image that you are
going to install/upgrade to (example:
linux-image-2.6.18-6-<flavor>). Later in this
document, this will be referred to as
linux-image-<version>-<flavor>. If you
have read a Debian-Edu/Skolelinux Advisory, you can probably read
there which kernel-image to install.
NB! After upgrading the kernel as described below, you need to reboot the machine for the upgrade to take effect!
NB2! Do not forget to tell your users, (you can check
which users that are logged in 'w'-command on the
thin-client-server) cause they will loose their work when you
reboot. One way of dealing with this, is to enter single user mode
on every server, starting with the thin client server
(LTSP-servers), by pressing "Alt+Ctrl+F1" logging in as root, with
root password, and enter init 1 on the command
line. Then follow the procedure below on the Main server first
(tjener), and reboot. When tjener comes up after the reboot, do
the upgrade on the LTSP-servers.
NB3! The upgrade process may fail if you do not have
enough space on your /-partition (check this with 'df -h'). You
need about 30-40MB available. If you do not have enough space, you
can remove an old kernel-image. To list the kernel-images that are
installed, use the command
dpkg -l | grep linux-image.
Go through these steps to upgrade your kernel:
root, run apt-get update to
update your package lists.root, run apt-get install
linux-image-<version>-<flavor>.
init 0)To verify that the kernel-upgrade was successfully, run the
command uname -a and you should get this
output, but with your kernel-version and flavor (this test was
from 2.6.18-6 kernel and with a 686-flavor):
Linux sue 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Dec 10 19:37:06 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
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Morten Werner Forsbring $Id: kernel-upgrade.html.en 59410 2008-02-11 21:48:24Z werner $ |
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