Re: Woody Stable Kernel

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 08/24/03

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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:52:37 +0200

    Hello

    Bob Proulx (<bob@proulx.com>) wrote:

    > Stephane wrote:

    >> Oh this is very interesting: here is what I get with the policy
    >> command (didn't know about it at all thanks)
    >>
    >> ernest:/home/stephane# apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
    >> kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4:
    >> Installed: (none)
    >
    > You are not running the bf24 kernel. It is not installed.

    No, it can be installed. I reinstalled Woody on an old machine (just to
    be sure). I installed from CD using the 2.4 kernel. CD 1 and 5 (the one
    with the deb package for the 2.4.18-bf2.4 Kernel) are known to apt.

    Look at this:

    andreas@polaris:~$ uname -r
    2.4.18-bf2.4

    andreas@polaris:~$ apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4
    kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4:
      Installed: (none)
                  ^^^^
      Candidate: 2.4.18-5
      Version Table:
         2.4.18-5 0
            500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386
    Binary-5 (20021218)] unstable/main Packages

    So the 2.4 boot floppy kernel _is_ installed and running, but apt does
    not know it. This is what I meant when I wrote "Because the package
    management does not know of the install kernel." It doesn't know it is
    installed.

    best regards
            Andreas Janssen 

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