[archive at ubuntu.com: Accepted debian-installer 20061102ubuntu6 (source)]

[Collins Richey]

On 12/11/06, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> With this upload and corresponding seed changes, I've switched the
> alternate install CDs to the -generic kernel on i386. This is something
> we talked about in Edgy but didn't quite get round to doing; it saves a
> fair bit of CD space on i386 because we no longer need to ship
> linux-headers-386, and it avoids confusion because the desktop CD also
> uses -generic by default as of Edgy. If you encounter installation
> breakage from the -generic kernel that didn't exist in the -386 kernel,
> a kernel bug is probably the best way to deal with it, or else you can
> use the new netboot/386 build as a workaround.
>

Does this also fix the dependency (?) problem with the generic kernel
and restricted_modules? I installed from herd1 kubuntu alternate and
had to manually move back to the ...386 kernel because the nvidia
module would not load using ...generic.

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Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
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