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Re: Differences between i386 and ppc kernels?



On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:32:54PM -0500, dwayne@austin.ibm.com wrote:
> >It might be worth submitting a wishlist bug against boot-floppies requesting t
> >hat
> >it register the installed kernel and modules with dpkg.  The implementation mi
> >ght
> >be tricky, but it would make it easier to bug report against the installed ker
> >nel,
> >and to remove it, so it's worth asking for.  Skimming the list of bugs against
> >boot-floppies doesn't turn up anything obvious.  Do you want to do this or sho
> >uld
> >I?
> 
> I'll open the wishlist bug against boot-floppies. Thanks for the advice.

For reference, yes, you probably do have that kernel image package.  At
present there is no way to register it at install, because we don't
install the whole kernel package - not its doc dir, for instance. 
Maybe someday.

Dan

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|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
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