brfg3 at yahoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html
(Please post to the mailing list in plain text only, and set your mailer to wrap lines at 72 columns.) > One of the authors in this thread seems to suggest that Debian 3 > already comes with 2.4.20 kernel. A 2.2 kernel is still the default one, but you can boot the installer from a 2.4 kernel, and install a 2.4.18 kernel with some security fixes backported after the installation. You should be able to install any 2.4 kernel on woody without problems, and you can probably find backported kernel-image packages online fairly straightforwardly. > Is it possible the the uname -r command is returning the same > version for the kernel image? I'm not entirely clear what you're asking. Generally the version that 'uname -r' will return matches an installed kernel-image package, except that the woody installer doesn't install a kernel-image package at all. > It just seems hard to believe that Debian would ship woody rc2 with > such an old kernel. Why? The kernel is just like any other piece of software in this respect; Debian's practice is always to keep the same version of software in stable, but backport security fixes as necessary. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
