Re: verifying kernel version
brfg3 at yahoo <brfg3@yahoo.com> writes:
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> One of the authors in this thread seems to suggest that Debian 3
> already comes with 2.4.20 kernel.
A 2.2 kernel is still the default one, but you can boot the installer
from a 2.4 kernel, and install a 2.4.18 kernel with some security
fixes backported after the installation. You should be able to
install any 2.4 kernel on woody without problems, and you can probably
find backported kernel-image packages online fairly straightforwardly.
> Is it possible the the uname -r command is returning the same
> version for the kernel image?
I'm not entirely clear what you're asking. Generally the version that
'uname -r' will return matches an installed kernel-image package,
except that the woody installer doesn't install a kernel-image package
at all.
> It just seems hard to believe that Debian would ship woody rc2 with
> such an old kernel.
Why? The kernel is just like any other piece of software in this
respect; Debian's practice is always to keep the same version of
software in stable, but backport security fixes as necessary.
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