[plug] Two questions about Debian system and upgrading

[Bret Busby]

I am running Debian Linux on my desktop computer, as a workstation.

At the login prompt, it says
"Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable".

In the /etc/apt/sources.list file, is
"
deb http://ftp.uwa.edu.au/mirrors/linux/debian/ stable main contrib 
non-free
deb http://ftp.wa.au.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
".

ls -l shows that the file is as it is, since 2007-01-01.

Updates have been performed, using Synaptic.

The first question is, how do I convert the system to Debian stable 
(sarge)? As the sources are from stable, the installed packages should 
now be mostly packages that would be in the stable version.

The second issue relates to the kernel. The kernel version appears to be 
2.4.18-bf2.4 .The CPU is a Duron 1100, for which I believe that the 
installed kernel is not the latest version.

Is it possible to update the kernel, without having to build a kernel 
package? If so, how? I cannot find how to update the kernel, without 
having to build a kernel package, in any of the documentation. When I 
previously used Red Hat 7.2 (which was from before Red Hat went like 
Microsoft), the update facility would update the kernel (although, each 
time, I would have to manually update the file that pointed to the 
kernel), but Synaptic won't do it.

Thanks in anticipation.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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