kernel questions

[rodrigo ahumada]

El vie, 14-01-2005 a las 18:31 -0400, Douglas Alves escribió:
> At start-up, the GRUB on my desktop lists 4 kernels:
>   2.6.8.1-4-386
>   2.6.8.1-4-386 (Recovery mode)
>   2.6.8.1-3-386
>   2.6.8.1-3-386 (Recovery mode)
> 
> Are the last 2 unnecessary for a newbie like me?
> Can I uninstall them? or should I remove them from menu.lst?

try for a while the 2.6.8.1-4-386, and when you get convinced that it
works OK, uninstall the 2.6.8.1-3-386

> 
> My desktop PC has a Celeron 2.5 GHz:
> Synaptic says I have installed:
>   linux-image-2.6-386        version 2.6.8.1-14
>   linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386  version 2.6.8.1-16.1
>   linux-image-386            version 2.6.8.1-14
> 
> Is any one redundant and can I remove it?

linux-image-386 it a fake pkg that means install a kernel for 386, the
only kernels for 386 in ubuntu are 2.6.X (no 2.4.x), so
linux-image-2.6-386 means install a kernel 2.6.X for 386 and the current
kernel 2.6.X for 386 is linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-386

> 
> Since I have a Celeron, should I install 
>   linux-image-2.6-686 and/or
>   linux-image-2.6.8.1-3-686 ?
> 
> What does the SMP mean in this Base System list, and what is that
> kernel's purpose?
> 
SMP: simetric multi-processing, it's for motherboards with pairs of cpus..