install: choose kernel

2006-10-28 Thread Douglas Tutty
I'm in the midst of a new install on my new computer: Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 motherboard AMD Athlon 3800+ CPU Asus EN7300GT graphics card 1 GB ram 2 Seagate 7200 80 GB SATA drives in raid1 with lvm. Using the netinst.iso image via usb stick boot hd-media.

Re: install: choose kernel

2006-10-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:00, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I'm at the point of choosing which kernel to install: > > linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic > linux-image-2.6.17-2amd64 > linux-image-2.6-amd64 There is absolutely no difference :-) In fact the only "real" kernel image packag

Re: install: choose kernel

2006-10-29 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:00, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> I'm at the point of choosing which kernel to install: >> >> linux-image-2.6-amd64-generic >> linux-image-2.6.17-2amd64 >> linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > There is absolutely no difference :-

Re: install: choose kernel

2006-10-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 29 October 2006 12:21, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Shouldn't the default be linux-image-2.6-amd64 so the kernel does get > automatically updated to the latest versions? At least with grub there > is little harm in adding more kernels because it doesn't "forget" the > old ones like lilo.