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Re: Compunding the problem



On  0, David Smead <smead@amplepower.com> wrote:
> I put off configuring the xserver until I had ssh installed and configured
> - perhaps I'm paraonoid from the days that a X screw-up would lock the
> keyboard and force a reboot by pulling the power cord.
> 
> Then I used anXious to config X and it decided I need the mach 64 server,
> so I let the beast run wild and go get it.  It also dragged in every
> 2.4.18 kernel it could find.  Soon my 32 MB /boot partition was overrun.
> 
> Then I compounded the error.  I deleted all the 2.4.18 kernels, images and
> configs in /boot - (by now I was booted off a 2.2.19 floppy).  I figured I
> could apt-get a new 2.4.18 kernel.  Oops!  Apt-get thinks I have them all
> already.
> 
> Where do I go in an slay the information that says I have them so I can
> re-install?

apt-get --reinstall install kernal-image-2.4.18

or whatever the package is.

Tom
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