Installing kernel to most effect is independent of the system itself. Few base packages change with the kernel upgrade. Those are module-tools, filesystem utilities etc etc.
But better idea is to have kernel upgrade to be vendor specific. That is it should be packaged by the vendor. So that the upgrade would automatically take care of utility software upgrade as well.
Coming back to the specific question, that is moving from 2.2.15 to 2.4. Both kernel support ext2 filesystem thus you can upgrade without problem. But you can also change your filesystem to ext3 seemlessly by using tune2fs tool thus you would get journalling facility which is part of ext3 and is support by 2.4.x series kernel.
But if you intend to use 2.2.x and 2.4.x series kernel together switching to journalling is not good.
In fact I am running woody with 2.4.18 kernel with journalling. What I did was. Boot the system with 2.2.15 which is the default kernel. Get debian 2.4 kernel, install it. then switching to ext3 using tune2fs and then changing the filesystem parameters in fstab. Oh and a reboot after installing the kernel parameters in grub or lilo
Supreet
On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:46, akr!linux-delhi.org@linux-delhi.org wrote:
folks
i have the debian 3.0 seven disk ditro (which is an installation set for both kernels 2.2.18 or 2.4, i.e. both potato and woody).
i am currently running debian with kernel 2.2.15.
i would like to do a kernel upgrade to 2.4 without having to re-partition disks etc. can anyone please tell me how this can be done using the ditro set that i have?
any help greatly welcome. regds
ajit ranade.
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