Re: linux-image-2.6.18-2 not currently installable?

[Martijn Grendelman <martijn@grendelman.net>]

Michael-E. Voges wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 00:41 schrieb John Harrell:
> > feel free to shine a bright light through the holes in my head, but it
> > seems that linux-image-2.6.18-2 is currently not installable on a
> > standard sarge distro.  From aptitude, it appears that
> >
> > 1) linux-image-2.6.18-2 requires initramfs-tools (yaird is now
> > unavailable in backports).
> >
> > 2) initramfs-tools requires udev (>= 0.086-1).
> >
> > 3) udev 0.100-2 is indeed available, but conflicts with hal (< 0.5.6-2).
> >
> > 4) Only hal 0.4.7-3sarge1 is available (and anything significantly newer
> > would be somewhere between painful to impossible to backport to sarge,
> > I'm guessing).
>
> I'm anxious to get that bright light,too.
> I've got the same result. I can't update to etch yet.

Remove hal?

Best regards,

Martijn Grendelman