[ale] Fw: HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ? <---- ATTN: James Sumners

[Raylynn Knight]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 09:58 -0400, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> James,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> As I'm sure you can tell, I'm awkwardly groping toward Debian literacy and
> am now
> quite befuddled at the murky descriptions of 'foolin' with Debian'.  :-)
> 
> Anyway, to attempt more clarity on my current circumstance.....
> 
> I was runnin' 2.4.17 and want to upgrade to Sarge, which I've belatedly
> learned
> is, apparently, capable of runnin' under 2.4.27 as well as 2.6x. I've been
> told
> that it would be best at this point to stay with 2.4.27 rather than tryin'
> to go 2.6.x.
> 
> So, at this point I'm plannin' on installing 2.4.27 by means of:
> 
>     aptitude install kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
> 
> which produced the errors to which you referred.
> 
> I should also add that I've, probably mistakenly, already
> switched to "sarge" in my sources.list and:
> 
>     apt-get update
>     apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 
> but....have not installed an appropriate 'new' kernel
> 
> Now, given your fuller understanding, that "stable" is what
> I'm after:
> 
> 1 - since I did the dist-upgrade to 'sarge' while runnin' 2.4.17,
>      where am I now, regarding what is currently installed  ?
> 
> 2 - what do you recommend to resolve the libc6/newKernel
>      need, given that I've already done a sarge dist-upgrade  ?
> 
> I apologize for the length of this msg but hopefully this will
> permit clarity for your effort to bail-me-out  :-)
> 
> Most appreciatively,
> 
> Courtney
> 
> 
When you run 'apt-get upgrade' do you get a message about any held
packages?  I suspect that the initrd-tools package is held and you will
need to do 'apt-get install initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-3-k7' to
get both the kernel and the necessary tools.  

I don't run the 2.4.27 kernel on any of my Intel boxes (they all run
2.6.xx), but my Sparc20 is running debian with the initrd-tools version
0.1.84.1 and kernel-image version 2.4.27-3-sparc32-smp.   I can't run a
2.6 kernel on the Sparc20 as 32 bit SMP is broken in the 2.6 series
kernels (so I get 1 processor instead of 4).

Ray