thanks to all for the responses. (yes, potato and woody refer to debian releases - and don't have anything to do with kernel versions. thanks for correcting. it's just that i have started mentally identifying 2.4 with woody.)
also, upgrading kernel from 2.2 to 2.4 is not like any other upgrade since it crosses the lakhman rekha from filesystem ext2 to ext3 (as supreet pointed out). thus in some ways there's no going back! that's why i wanted specific advice.
of course, i could simply install the new system from scratch. but that would be too time consuming, etc etc. that's the last resort anyway.
so, my qs again - has anyone actually done the kernel upgrade using apt? someone also suggested downloading the binary image and adding one more entry in lilo.conf. i don't know if that will work though.
regds
ajit ranade.
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