Bug#632880: Debian GNU/Linux 6 testing was unbottable on Acer Aspire One 521 after kernel update to 2.6.39-2-686-pae

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Михаил Гаврилов wrote:

> Ok. When or how I can get 3.x.y kernel from sid??

Today. :)

If you have unstable in your sources.list, this means installing

 initramfs-tools
 linux-base
 linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae

from there.  If you do not have unstable in your sources.list and want
to add it, that presumably would involve setting up APT pinning; the
Debian Reference has details on this.

However, if you're in a hurry, it's possible to install the packages
without using APT.  Just download them from the location specified in
http://packages.debian.org/, check their signatures[*], and use

 dpkg --unpack initramfs-tools_0.99_all.deb
 dpkg --unpack linux-base_3.4_all.deb
 dpkg --unpack linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae_3.1.1-1_i386.deb
 dpkg --configure -a

Sorry for the lack of clarity, and hope that helps.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[*]
  mirror=http://ftp.debian.org/debian
  pool=$mirror/pool

  curl $mirror/dists/unstable/InRelease >InRelease
  curl $mirror/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 | bunzip2 >Packages
  wget $pool/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae_<version goes here>.deb
  wget $pool/l/linux-base/linux-base_3.4_all.deb
  wget $pool/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.99_all.deb

  gpg --verify InRelease
  grep -E 'main/binary-i386/Packages$' InRelease
  sha256sum Packages; # and compare
  awk '
	/^Package: (linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae|linux-base|initramfs-tools)/ { found=1 }
	found && (/^Package/ || /^Version/ || /^SHA256/) { print }
	found && /^$/ { found = 0 }
  ' Packages
  sha256sum *.deb; # and compare

Maybe there's some tool other than APT that does this automatically,
but I'm too lazy to find it. :)