-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
While doing an "apt-get upgrade", one of the packages it wants to upgrade is 2.2.19-4potato.5. The new package is kernel-image-2.2.19-ide_2.2.19-12_i386.deb. During the upgrade, I get some scary verbiage that seems to be a bit contradictory. If I'm just doing a straight minor-point-level upgrade, and have no extra kernel modules, is an overwrite ok? Mandrake handles this by creating a new directory with a slightly different name. Debian just wants me to rename the current /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide to /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide.old. This sounds weird, since I'm using LKMs ! What to do? Here's the warning message: You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.2.19-ide) However, the directory /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide still exists. If this directory belongs to a previous kernel-image-2.2.19-ide package, and if you have deselected some modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. However, if this directory exists because you are also installing some stand alone modules right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. Unfortunately, I can't tell the difference. If /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide belongs to a old install of kenel-image-2.2.19-ide, this is your last chance to abort the installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed right now, or if it does belong to an older kernel-image-2.2.19-ide package but you know what you are doing, and if you feel that this image should be installed despite this anomaly, Please answer n to the question. Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide out of the way, perhaps to /lib/modules/2.2.19-ide.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. TIA, Ron - -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Adell(sp?) ! +------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8Pi9TjTz5dS9Us5wRAgXXAJ9ZiQYCzZo3M//IQILy9WDj/7byLQCfTQpJ QEsWcD4ifV7lKlE+HvgH5mM= =uz2H -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----