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Re: An old box running Debian 8



On Sb, 14 nov 20, 16:36:03, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> On 11/13/20 9:29 PM, David Wright wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I would have thought that Debian has made kernel testing just about as
> > easy as they can since:
> > jessie  installs with 3.16 but 4.9  is also available,
> > stretch installs with 4.9  but 4.19 is also available,
> > buster  installs with 4.19
> > so there's full overlap. (I've not looked at backports.)
> > 
> 
> That's actually what I also thought about.
> 
> Btw, when you say 'installs', do you mean a fresh installation only, or it
> includes a 'forced' kernel update during a distribution upgrade? My old box
> was installed for the first time in squeeze, then upgraded to wheezy, then
> to jessie.

It depends on whether you have the corresponding linux-image-<sub-arch> 
package installed or not.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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