In general, the answer to your question is Yes. What you would do is to install Debian, or whatever, in a clean partition and then build another kernel for it. However, in the particular case of upgrading from 2.2 to 2.4 kernels, you also have to upgrade glibc, binutils and other bits and pieces. It is therefore ESSENTIAL that you do it in a clean partition. Do not try to upgrade a running system.

The moral is: always build your disks with two root partitions so that you can do dangerous things without cutting your own balls off.

On 29-Oct-01 Edenyard wrote:

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:45:29 +0100, MJR wrote:

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Anyone here with a kernel 2.4 Debian installation CD? I'm sure such things exist, but I don't have one.

I've looked in all the usual places, but they all seem to say 2.2.xx for Debian. That's the frustrating thing: one hears how good Debian is, but can't try it! I wondered whether it's possible to take a distribution (e.g., Debian) and install it with another kernel?? I don't know enough about how all the different bits of Linux fit together to know whether this is a sensible suggestion.

  Gerald.