[ale] HOW2 know which Debian kernel#s apply to the Sargedistribution ?

[James Sumners]

The kernel version has absolutely nothing to do with the version of
Debian. The versions of the kernel listed in that wikipedia article
are just the ones shipped in Sarge. You can run whatever version you
feel like. Indeed, the make-kpkg utility is there for the specific
reason of creating your own debs for whichever kernel you wish to run.
You can install a kernel by hand, but Debian won't recognize it as
being installed and you may run into some problems with some packages
that require specific versions of the kernel to be installed. That is,
when installing packages with apt/aptitude/et al. the package manager
looks at the list of installed debs to determine what kernel, and
kernel headers, is installed. It does not look at the results of
uname.

On 10/22/06, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/20/06, Courtney Thomas <courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your reply.
> >
> > So, does this mean that, for example, if I install kernel-2.6.18, that it
> is not Sarge and
> > all the Sarge packages will be improper  for that kernel  ?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Courtney
>
>
> Gee, I'm not certin about that. My guess is that 2.6.18 is an updated
> version of Sarge.
>
> I'm reading between the lines here, but I'm assuming that you want to update
> to Sarge kernel; however, you are having difficulty finding packages to
> match the kernel.
>
> I would suggest not updating in a piece meal fashion; rather, get a full
> distribution of Sarge. The full distribution will most likely have both the
> kernel and the packages that you need..
>
> If that won't work for you circumstances, then I suggest installing the
> kernel, updating the kernel, then perhaps you will find packages to match
> the updated kernel.
>
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