Updating the Raspberry Pi

I am debugging a boring network issue (which causes data to stutter and very slow and intermittent transfer speeds). It does seem to be a driver issue, so I am trying first of all to upgrade the kernel and stuff…

I prepared a backup of the sd-card in ~/mnt/cccmedia/sd-img.img with dd. Please note it is the whole sd-card, not any of the partitions.

Then we need to update the sources.list file

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

In my case this could be a little problematic since I had been using my own kernel, but more on this later…