Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860]

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Ben Humpert <ben_humpert@msn.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > kinda curious, uname -a said "Linux dr02g 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb
> > 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux". 
> > This is not a SMP kernel, not a real one or something different?!
> >     
>
> ~$ grep SMP /boot/config-2.6.18-4-686
> CONFIG_SMP=y
> # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set
> CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP=y
> CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y
> CONFIG_X86_SMP=y
>
> The 686 kernels are SMP for some time now.
>
>   
> > dpkg said, the installed "kernel" is "linux-image-2.6.18-4-686" and
> > "linux-image-2.6-686" (no kernel-image-* is installed)
> >     
>
> The linux kernel packages in etch and above have been renamed to avoid
> conflicts with non-linux kernels like freebsd.
>
> HTH,
> Andrei
>   
Well, I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one that was confused by the 
renaming of kernel-image to linux-image.  That one really had me going 
for a while.