Could someone please 'splain to me what goes with what here? I've updated to 3.0r2. The plan so far is:
(i) Install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 (ii) Go for updated kernel sources and re-build.
I see there's kernel-source-2.4.18 and:
kernel-headers-2.4.18 - Header files related to Linux kernel version 2.4.18 kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 - Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.18 (bf variant) on 386
Will all of those work with kernel-source-2.4.18? Which one _should_ I be using (PIII laptop workstation box; not server)?
Probably 2.4.18-686. dpkg -p kernel-headers-2.4.18-686
Package: kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 35284 Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Source: kernel-image-2.4.18-i386 Version: 2.4.18-5 Provides: kernel-headers, kernel-headers-2.4 Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0) Filename: pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.4.18-i386/kernel-headers-2.4.18-686_2.4.18-5_i386.deb Size: 3484714 MD5sum: 5724a523d83fc4491747aea47ef0b7c7 Description: Linux kernel headers 2.4.18 on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/PIV This package provides kernel header files for version 2.4.18 on Pentium Pro/Celeron/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium IV, for sites that want the latest kernel headers. Please read /usr/share/doc/kernel-headers-2.4.18-686/debian.README.gz for details
What's "bf variant" and why should I care? One of the google pages I looked at said, "The bf2.4 kernel is limited by the desire to keep it on floppies during installation." I can't imagine why I would want to do that. If it doesn't boot, I'll just slap a bootable CD in, boot from that, and fix whatever's broken. I don't think I need to care about bf*, or am I missing something?
I'm booting with grub, fwiw.
Thanks, much appreciated.
PS Just a suggestion, but it might help, in the future, if those descriptions above were tightened up a bit. Both kernel-headers-2.4.18-686 and kernel-headers-2.4.18-1-686 are described the same.
PPS For extra marks :-), why the proliferation of source & header
packages? I thought this kind of thing was supposed to be
controlled by #ifdef & friends. I can understand having
thirteen pre-built kernel-image packages, but why sixteen
kernel-headers-2.4.18?
Try dpkg -p on them all.
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