Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

[Raquel Rice <raquel@thericehouse.net>]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:54:59 +0100
Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> Chris Searle (<debian@chrissearle.org>) wrote:
> 
> > I ran apt-get upgrade -u yesterday and noticed that it was
> > wanting to upgrade kernel-image-2.4.24-1-686.
> > 
> > The upgrade went OK (apart from ALSA will no longer load) - but
> > I'm confused - I thought that upgrade would not upgrade a
> > kernel-image - that you had to choose to do so by running
> > apt-get install? It's certainly the first time I've had a
> > kernel-image turn up in the upgrade list.
> > 
> > Do kernels get upgraded the same way as other packages?
> 
> Yes. Exceptions are intallation kernels, which are not set to
> "installed" in the package database, and name changes like from
> 2.4.18 to 2.4.28-1. 
> 
> bets regards
>         Andreas Janssen
> 

Please forgive me for being so dense.  But, two months ago when I
installed Woody, I installed 2.4.18-bf2.4 via floppies and the
Internet.  To upgrade to 2.4.18-686, all I need to do is to mark, in
aptitude, the kernel image for installation?

-- 
Raquel
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