On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: | On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:55PM -0500, dman wrote: | > Debian 2.2 (aka "potato") comes with kernel 2.2.20 now, and AFAIK, has | > always had a 2.2.x kernel. | | No it does not look like so. Stable potato always and still have 2.0 | kernel.
The first time I installed potato I got kernel 2.2.16 (and RH 7.0 had 2.2.17, IIRC). That was over a year ago. More recent versions of boot-floppies used 2.2.18pre21. (or something like that, I remember because there were lots of "what's 'pre'?" questions) | It is ultrastable so version number does not change as | frequently. | | $ apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.0.38 | kernel-image-2.0.38: | Installed: (none) | Candidate: 2.0.38-3 | Version Table: | 2.0.38-3 0 | 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages It isn't too surprising that it still has a 2.0 kernel packaged for it, (in fact, .38 must be fairly new since I thought the 2.0 series ended at .36) but the installer uses a 2.2 kernel. $ apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.2.19 kernel-image-2.2.19: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.2.19-4potato.5 Version Table: 2.2.19-4potato.5 0 500 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main Packages 2.2.19-2 0 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages -D -- Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what He has made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7:13
