kernel upgrade
I was able to edit the source.list and tried apt-get -s install
kernel-image-2.4.18 and it acts like it's going to install a whole bunch of
kernels. I don't understand this. Is it just because of the -s? Does it
just know what cpu I have? Should I just specify?
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cramfsprogs dash initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.18-386
kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc kernel-image-2.4.18-686
kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel-image-2.4.18-k6
kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 libc6 libc6-dev libdb1-compat locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cramfsprogs dash initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.18-386
kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc kernel-image-2.4.18-686
kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel-image-2.4.18-k6
kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 libdb1-compat
3 packages upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 490 not upgraded.
Inst libdb1-compat (2.1.3-7 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libc6-dev (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable) []
Inst locales (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libc6 (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable)
Conf libdb1-compat (2.1.3-7 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6 (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable)
Inst dash (0.4.5 Debian:unstable)
Inst cramfsprogs (1.1-4 Debian:unstable)
Inst initrd-tools (0.1.34 Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 (2.4.18-6 Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Inst kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6-dev (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable)
Conf locales (2.3.1-5 Debian:unstable)
Conf dash (0.4.5 Debian:unstable)
Conf cramfsprogs (1.1-4 Debian:unstable)
Conf initrd-tools (0.1.34 Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-386 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-686-smp (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4 (2.4.18-6 Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-k6 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
Conf kernel-image-2.4.18-k7 (2.4.18-5 Debian:3.0/stable, Debian:unstable)
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:52, Tim Verry wrote:
> I have a pentium 200, non mmx. Do I need i586 or can I use i686?
>
> On Monday 25 November 2002 17:42, sean finney wrote:
> > i think your problem is that the kernel installed by default doesn't
> > seem to support smbfs. if you're not completely attached to said kernel
> > and want to join the rest of the 2.4 world, i recommend:
> >
> > # apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18
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