Re: kernels

[Ossama Othman <othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu>]

Hi,

> Can anyone suggest an easy way to ensure that I never download a debian
> kernel package where I already have a custom kernel installed? dpkg/apt/dselect
> continually replace my kernel-package-2.0.33 with the standard one,
> which doesn't suite my hardware at all of course (and causes random reboots
> during startup in fact, as some kernels do --- bzImage problem I think).

Just place your kernel-image package on hold in dselect, i.e. highlight
the kernel-image package in dselect and press the "=" button.  That will
prevent your kernel-image from being upgraded.  I've done the same.

-Ossama



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