Re: FW: Kernel identification
It seems that it must have been removed from the archive between your
installs. 2.4.17 does not exist on the archives now, only
2.4.17-b42.4. I may be wrong but it seems to me it hasn't been there
for several weeks. I would suggest installing 2.4.18.
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 19:11, curtis wrote:
> Let's go back to my original problem.
>
> Here's my letter:
>
> I upgraded the kernels on all of computers per instructions, which
> are provided at the end of the message.
> This worked on all but one computer.
> I assumed that that computer was upgraded to 2.4, but I discovered
> recently that it is still on the 2.2 kernel.
> Doing an apt-get dist-upgrade produces no results now. The only
> image in the /boot / directory (which is were it should be, right?)
> is vmlinuz-2.2.17.
> Do I now have manually upgrade it? And if so, how?
>
> Curtis
>
>
> Procedures for upgrade:
> 1. edit sources.list
> 2. apt-get update
> 3. apt-get install apt dpkg apt-utils
> 4. apt-get dist-upgrade
> 5. apt-get -f install
>
> Now, since then I tried to download the kernel per instructions provided
> by dman:
>
> apt-get install kernel-imgage-<version>
>
> In this case, when I type apt-get install kernal-image-2.4.17-386 (the
> kernel version on my other computers), I get the following message:
>
> Package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 has no available version, but exists
> in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package kernel-image-2.4.17-386 has no installation candidate
>
> Fine, so I typed apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17 and for whatever
> reason it installed kernel-image-2.4.17-bf2.4.
>
> So, how do I get the correct kernel-image? Or what is the correct
> title? Perhpas 2.4.19-386?
>
> Curtis
>
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:11:50PM -0500, dman wrote:
> >
> >>Will anyone help curtis? I don't know about the 'bf' kernels.
> >>
> >
> >bf = boot floppy
> >
> >Special kernel flavor compiled for the initial system installation.
> >
> >It should be quite useful but may not have all the bells and whistle.
> >
> >Just install normal 2.4 kernel and configure modules to suits your
> >system.
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >>----- Forwarded message from curtis <curtis@npc-usa.com> -----
> >>| From: curtis <curtis@npc-usa.com>
> >>|
> >>| After updating the kernel on one of my computers, I see that I have the
> >>| following kernel image: vmlinuz-2.4.17-386
> >>| I then tried to update the kernel on another computer. For whatever
> >>| reason it would not update automatically so I had to perform the
> >>| following operation:
> >>| apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17
> >>|
> >>| Well, it install vmlinuz-2.4.17-bf2.4
> >>|
> >>| I understand the 386 in the earlier kernel image install to refer to a
> >>| 386 processor. What does the bf2.4 mean and is this appropriate?
> >>
>
>
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