Installed kernels

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:29:19AM -0500, Santiago Erquicia wrote:
> I realized that my notebook (Pentium IV) didn't have installed the i686
> kernel but the i386.  Should I add this to bugzilla?  Which component?

It's not really a bug; space on the CD is limited so there's only one
kernel package there, namely the 386 one. You can install a different
one if you like.

> Another thing is that the current installation (I installed with the
> first RC) doesn't install the linux-image-i386/i686 package but just one
> version of the kernel.  This makes impossible to automatically know that
> there is a new kernel to update to.

That's a bug, already filed and assigned to me.

> If I have the linux-image-i386/i686 package and I update a kernel, is
> the old kernel uninstalled?

No.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]