Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:
[ Hi -- you wouldn't believe the nightmare I just went through these last couple of days -- my keyboard is possessed by Linda Blair and the Stepford Wives, as well as being in need of an Exorcism ...I think I'll just take it out back for a little target practice, and end it's miserable existence ;-) -- Long story short: I _finally_ went out and got another keyboard. ] > > > no, its says it will REMOVE your kernel, as in you'll have no kernel > > > when its down. > > > > Understood and THANKS! ....Warning heeded! > > But why/what are the items in parentheses there for ?? > > Is it telling me that I would _need_ those versions listed in parentheses, in > > order to fufill dependencies...or what ?? The versions listed are NEWER than > > those - an example is the "initrd-tools" line; > > > > I honestly don't know except that it won't be upgraded to that > version. That is likely a reference to the actual deb file it is > removing by removing that package. hmmm.....I think all the *(.....Debian:testing)* references indicate otherwise - but it's anyone's guess...and yours are better than mine ;-) I don't think i have ANY 'testing' pkgs installed. > > Inst module-init-tools [3.2-pre1-2] (3.2.2-3 Debian:testing) > > > > hmmm...something's fishy here Note - the above comments > > I see - but does it not know that One _needs_ a Kernel-image ?? > > with great freedom comes great responsibility. the apt system has no > way of knowing what your intentions are or whether you have another > kernel floating around. Maybe there should be some sanity check if the > running kernel is the same as one to be removed, but who knows. And I > suppose, once you're running, you don't strictly NEED a kernel > anymore, provided you don't reboot... ahh... Just like the car battery - once the car is running, the altenator takes over -- if one could keep the engine running indefinitely, no need for a battery to spin the starter motor in order to crank the flywheel ;-) > okay, sorry. No,no - my bad, and my apologies indeed ;-) > You know, its a lot of fun, this process of learning a new system and > nothing is better than learning by doing. trial and error is the best > tool, provided you don't totally bork something and end up giving up > in frustration. Problem is: I'm extremely good at breaking things ;-) (See my intro statement) > > > maybe backports has a copy for you? > > > > Do I understand correctly about "backports" -- it's basically a "customized" > > kernel ? > > backporting is when a newer version of a package is compiled for an > older system. I don't run sarge so others can chime in here, but > typically I think its used for running a new kernel within stable to > get some bit of hardware support that might be missing in the stock > kernels. Also, some of the rapidly moving targets (I see a lot about > backports of OpenOffice.org) have improved greatly since sarge came > out making the newer versions highly desirable within the sarge/stable > context. > > I originally started this thread when I came across this URL link to; > > <http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/hardware/!INDEX.html> [ self-correction ] I didn't actually start the thread with that URL, but I _did_ post it in a later post ] [ /self-correction ] > huh? I get some spamish meta search engine thing. ??? Wow .. I think I may steer clear of any of that -- Perhapos someone else can confirm the munging ??? Try the Top level only -> ibiblio.org if you are feeling exploratory ;-) > so just out of curiosity, why do you need/want a newer version of > hdparm? is there some new functionality that you can't get from the > sarge version? Simple; Here's some text of the revisions/updates to the app 'hdparm' (I previously pasted this info into one of my earlier posts) . =============================== Begin4 Title: hdparm Version: 6.6 Entered-date: 2006-03-07 Description: hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters for Linux IDE drives. v6.6 fix build on Redhat/Fedora v6.5 fix -I bugs introduced in v6.4 v6.4 major update for -I, bug fix for -C v6.3 report ATA revisions > 7 v6.2 major rework of ATA Security Commands v6.1 bug fix for BLKGETSIZE [...] =============================== Note the bug fixes to the -I and -C options -- that's why ;-) Now -- I'm having a heck of a hard time trying to find that info from either the Official Debian site <http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/hdparm> and/or the Developer's site; <http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hdparm.html> ... go figure > > Hey -- atleast you stopped this sometimes overly cavalier, wreakless man from > > acting too boldly ......and driving off the cliff ;-) > > never be afraid to drive over a cliff. the worst that can happen is > you'll land at the bottom, anything other than that involces some kind > of flying :) I'm not scared of Flying -- I like to fly. It seems what worries ppl most, is what can happen while they're flying -- all of a sudden they stop flying, and start falling instead ;-) Thanks for all your effort/support Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
