386 to 686 updating

[domestiko]

pol wrote:

>"in reply to:
> now i wonder if i needed to delete the 386 kernel or if it was done
>automatically. and if i need to do that, then HOW do i do that?
>
> Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
>It is not done automatically, but you can remove it with
>apt-get/aptitude or synaptic."
>
>so do i just find linux 386 install in synaptic and select remove? i'm
>obviously nervous as i really don't know my way around ubuntu yet.
>
>but you guys are really teaching me a lot,
>mulata
>
>  
>
I did something similar: Installing the 686 linux image and then 
removing the 386 old one.
But
I made some mistake:
I had configured my 386 to use the nvidia modules {by apt-get-ting the 
linux restricted modules specific for the 386}. So, when I started in 
686-linux-image, horror! Gnome didn't started! The system couldn't find 
the modules needed!
Fortunately I just had to apt-get the right ones for my kernel and 
install them.

Please, be sure that you don't have set any module specific for the 
kernel you're using. Try by starting using the new one and, if 
everything goes fine, you can get rid of the older :)

I keep on learning