There is a newer MEPIS kernel available in the MEPIS 8.5 repo.

If you want it, enable the MEPIS 8.5 repo and do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.

The kernel is supposed to speeden up boot time a little.

Hello anti. I hope that all is well.

I would like to try this and when I enable my Mepis 8.5 repo, I get this.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
kaboom kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-data kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data
kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools libattica0 libclucene0ldbl libilmbase6 libiodbc2
libkde3support4 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdnssd4 libkfile4
libkhtml5 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff2-4
libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4
libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4 libkutils4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a
libopenexr6 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-0 libpulse-mainloop-glib0
libqca2 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-webkit
libqt4-xmlpatterns libreadline5 libsolid4 libsoprano4 libssh-4
libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 libvirtodbc0 odbcinst
odbcinst1debian2 oxygen-icon-theme partitionmanager phonon-backend-xine
plasma-scriptengine-javascript shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
virtuoso-minimal virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
mepis-install ndiswrapper-dkms ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 python-cupsutils
4 upgraded, 63 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 67.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 174 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do I need to add all these packages?
If so, after updating, do I then uncomment my sources.list and do an apt-get clean and check the Kernel using uname -r?
Thanks,
Dave

If you want the latest 2.6.36 MEPIS kernel you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to enable the MEPIS repos and replace 8.5 with 11.0
Then
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp linux-headers-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp

Thanks. I'll try it.
Dave

Hmm. I did something wrong here...

I believe that I answered all questions correctly. Answered"Yes" but I still seem to be using the old Kernel.

inxi -S:
System: Host antiX3 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-686-update 27 July 2010

Tried apt-get again:

root@antiX3:/home/Cuttlefish# apt-get install linux-image-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp linux-headers-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp is already the newest version.
linux-image-2.6.36-1-mepis-smp is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libusplash0 libicu42 libdes425-3 compiz-gtk libdecoration0 libwnck-common
metacity-common libbs2b0 cairo-dock-plugin-data libgadu3 liblqr-1-0
libwnck22 libxres1 gs-common libdirac-decoder0 mplayer-skin-blue
libmagickcore3 usplash-theme-debian libgnome-window-settings1 libmpfr1ldbl
libmagickwand3 libvdpau1 libdb4.5 compiz-core libgtkglext1 compiz-gnome
libmetacity-private0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.

-Dave

Do in a root terminal

update-grub

Thanks anti. I'll try that after downloading antiX 11.0 beta. __{{emoticon}}__

No luck... still using the old Kernel. Though it appears to be there in the boot file.

Try
update-initramfs -u -t -k all

Still no luck.

So what happens when you boot from the new kernel?
Does it appear in the grub menu?

No it doesn't. I kind of expected to have a choice between the old and new.

So you must be dual-booting and grub is not the one in antiX.
In that case you need to add the new kernel lines to your /boot/grub/menu.lst

Post it and we can help edit it.

Okay...I know that I'm a bit slow. But it is now solved.

Well, I have multiple partitions and my grub points to one particular partition. I used the liveCD to repair my grub and point to the partition that my newer Kernel was on. Viola, there was the new Kernel. Thanks for your patience anti.

Dave

By the way, I had to rename the devices when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.32 to 2.6.36. I am using AntiX M11 beta2. Hda1 had to be renamed in sda1. I had to change this in grubs menu.lst and in /etc/fstab. It took me a while to figure this out. That's why I post this. Maybe other users experience the same problem.