On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:18:31 -0600, Kent West (we...@acu.edu) wrote: > wes...@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo aptitude search linux-image | grep > 2.6
No need for sudo or su for aptitude search. > Four questions: > > 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."? This happened a long time ago. Maybe Debian can be run on non-linux kernels somewhere? > 2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" and what happened to just plain "-686" > with the 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 kernels? Support for these presumably: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer > 3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to > see the entire name. Since I can't see the entire name, I tried > "aptitude show linux-image-2.6.24-etchnhalf.*" to get more details on > these, but the command spit up blood all over my new shirt instead of > doing what I expected. Try your search with --disable-columns so it looks like this: aptitude --disable-columns search linux-image | grep 2.6 > 4. What's the difference between, say, "linux-image-2.6" and > "linux-image-2.6-686" and "linux-image-2.6.18-6-686"? I understand the > last one is a specific version of the 2.6.18 kernel (the 6th sub-variant > of the 2.6.18 kernel compiled for i686 machines?), but is the 2.6-686 > the 1st version of the i686 kernel, or something else? apt-cache show linux-image-2.6 linux-image-2.6-686 linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 should explain things. -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
