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When i installed etch i used the 40MB online installer and it gave me a K7 kernel.

After a couple of days i screwed up my install (being a noob) so decided to install again and downloaded CD1 to save some time.

the CD installed with a 486 compiled kernel.

so i got myself a K7 kernel and replaced it (via synaptic)

my system is stable and works well.

this morning i went to do my first "apt-get dist-update" and it wanted to update a 486 kernel.

how do i make my install see that i now have a K7 kernel? it was installed correctly via synaptic, but i had to change lilo.conf and myself.

$uname -r
2.6.18-6-k7

it wants to download 2.6.18-6-486

to me, this looks like the K7 kernel wasnt set up correctly and synaptic still thinks i am using 2.6.18-5-486

cheers
Jayse

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kernel upgrades and apt-get

Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2008-01-31 18:19.

You probably have a "meta-package" installed - for example:

linux-image-2.6-486

That package is updated to depend on the latest 2.6 kernel for i486. You can safely delete such a package:

apt-get remove linux-image-2.6-486

To get a list of the "linux-image*" packages you have currently installed:

dpkg -l "linux-image*"

I don't like these kernel meta-packages because I don't want an automatic update of my kernels, so I usually delete those packages.

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kernel upgrades and apt-get

Submitted by Jayse on Thu, 2008-02-07 16:14.

thanks pinniped, i did that and these are the packages left on my system.

mercury:~# dpkg -l linux-image*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
un linux-image (no description available)
un linux-image-2.6 (no description available)
pn linux-image-2.6-486 (no description available)
ii linux-image-2.6-k7 2.6.18+6etch3 Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7
ii linux-image-2.6.18-5- 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17 Linux 2.6.18 image on x86
ii linux-image-2.6.18-5- 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7
ii linux-image-2.6.18-6- 2.6.18.dfsg.1-17etch1 Linux 2.6.18 image on AMD K7

I too would like to manage my own kernel install, i use grub on a boot partition and find that some tools just mess things up for me, and i usually just end up copying the files and editing the conf file manually. Like i did after the last problem of mine that you fixed :) link

What else can i safely clean off my system, and will this stop me getting update notifications about the kernel?

Jayse

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