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

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 06:25:05PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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?

No, that's unrelated. If an upgrade doesn't solve this problem, please
ensure that a bug is filed on the linux-restricted-modules-2.6.19 source
package. (Perhaps this is bug #74607.)

Further discussion on this subthread should go to ubuntu-devel-discuss,
I think.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]