On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:19:36AM +1200, cr wrote: > It looks as if the kernels on the Woody CD-ROMS aren't actually in the form > of packages, since 'apt-cache search vanilla' (or compact, or idepci) brings > up lists of other programs but nothing kernel-like. apt-cache search > vmlinuz does nothing, nor apt-cache search linux.bin.
Try apt-cache search kernel-image Most of the kernel-image packages are on CD 5 IIRC, so you need the full set of CDs - I think if you've only got the first CD all you've got is a source package and enough tools to build it. > I just found the 2.2.20 kernel package at www.debian.org and downloaded it > (36 minutes on a 28k modem) and installed it with Kpackage (I'm lazy!), and > it seems to be working. Aside from briefly breaking GRUB and having to fix > it yet again because I got the /boot directories mixed up :) > > Further investigations will have to wait till later - after midnight now and > I do have a day job <grin> Do you mean CD burning is working, or just that nothing has stopped working? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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