Re: impossible kernel upgrade

[Matt Taggart <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>]

Wichert Akkerman writes...

> I have a slight problem upgrading nessler: I can't upgrade libc6
> since it aborts stating the kernel is too old. But I can't compile
> or install a precompiled kernel since that requires installing
> some packages that require the new libc6. 

A couple options(in order of difficulty),

- Force install one of the kernel images
- Grab a prebuilt kernel from ftp.parisc-linux.org
- Extract a kernel from the kernel-image deb
- Use paer or sarti to build one

Then proceed with the upgrade.

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