aptget wants to install on remove 3254

"John-Paul Stewart"

No you haven't. When you installed each of those versions they came with Debian kernels.

Reprinted with permission of Linux Magazine

Kernel Configuration: dealing with the unexpected

by Alessandro Rubini

This article introduces to kernel configuration in order to compile a customized kernel. At the risk of being too technical, I'm also trying to explain a little of the underlying design issues; if you prefer sticking to the mere working instructions, the README file found in the source package is a good document to check.

Om order to upgrade, you need to get a recent copy the kernel source. When you download an ``official'' kernel tar file from the Internet, you might find that it is slightly different from the one used by your distribution, and you'll need to cope with the issue. Most distributions don't use the unmodified official kernel sources, they apply instead some patches they feel useful for the user. Since the GPL license requires to state any difference from the original program and ``derived'' ones, you'll be able to reapply the same patches to the newer kernel version, if you need them. Debian for example shipped a 2.0.36 kernel with both the bigphysarea and the serial-console patches applied; the exact location of the patches was specified in README.debian so anyone could apply the same changes to a newer kernel (for example, to 2.0.37).

If you are really curious about the names of the current Debian kernel patches you'll have to do your own homework. I really have better things to do.

debian.org and-or kernel.org would be the obvious places to start.

AC