Problems with kernel.

[fedchoe]

I installed ntfs-3g, it worked nice.
Then I installed a trial of vmware server, it didnt find gcc or something but reported to be ok. But it wasnt, it didnt start. I think it did some changes to the kernel. After that ntfs-3g didnt want to work. Had to have Kernel version 2.6.20 minimum, mine was 2.6.18.

Uninstalled vmware.

How do I upgrade to the newest stable kernel?
I did add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb Index of /debian-kernel etch main

And typed this in the terminal as root:
wget -q -O - http://kernel-archive.buildserver.net/key | apt-key add -

And then this:
apt-cache search kernel-image --names-only
The result was:

kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on generic x86_64 systems - transition package
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 systems - transition package
kernel-image-2.6-amd64-k8-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on AMD64 SMP systems - transition package
kernel-image-2.6-em64t-p4 - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on Intel EM64T systems - transition package
kernel-image-2.6-em64t-p4-smp - Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on Intel EM64T SMP systems - transition package

Cant see any 2.6.20 -> there?

My /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this:

deb Index of /debian etch main
deb Index of /debian-kernel etch main
# deb Index of /debian sid main
# deb Index of /debian sid main


# deb Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main contrib
# deb-src Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main contrib

I have been uncommenting sources and commenting them to check them individually. Ran apt.-get update in between. Didnt find any more kernels in my search that way.

Anyway, I did install kernel-image-2.6-amd64-generic to see what happened. But it didnt help me much.

Any tips?

By the way, my swap filesystem doesnt work. Says some error in the bootup of the OS. Some swap signature missing or something.

[coopstah13]

i believe debian stable kernel is 2.6.18.something its not going to be 2.6.20 you could manually build and install a newer version of the kernel if you like, but you won't get one through apt, what exactly is the problem with vmware? vmware has to build and install a kernel module so you need to have the necessary stuff installed for it to do that.

apt-get install module-assistant build-essential
m-a prepare

also you might have some problems with vmware, you have to download some patch from somewhere I forget what its called

[fedchoe]

I believe I have everything installed for vmware, but the installer complained that it doint find gcc. It is there anyway.

If 2.6.18 is the last stable release, then why is ntfs-3g complaining?
And whats up with my swap partition not working?

[fedchoe]

after running:
m-a prepare

I in the end get:
Dependent of: libc6-dev but is not to be installed libc-dev
Dependent of : g++ (>= 4:4.1.1) but is not to be installed

I already have libc6, the newest version.

[coopstah13]

did you install anything without apt other than vmware?

for sources all you need it something like this

deb ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://debian.lcs.mit.edu/debian/ etch main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free

It sounds like you have some conflicting sources that are trying to install things that aren't available

the vmware thing i'm talking about is called vmware-any-any try googling it