Odd debian kernel install problem

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:43:52PM -0500, Neil Watson wrote:
> I'm trying to install a Debian kernel:
> ettin:/boot# apt-get -V install kernel-image-2.6-686-smp
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> kernel-image-2.6-686-smp (2.6.18+5)
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 64 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1972B of archives.
> After unpacking 32.8kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://debian.yorku.ca testing/main kernel-image-2.6-686-smp
> 1:2.6.18+5 [1972B]
> Fetched 1972B in 0s (13.2kB/s)                 
> Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6-686-smp.
> (Reading database ... 81432 files and directories currently
> installed.)
> Unpacking kernel-image-2.6-686-smp (from
> .../kernel-image-2.6-686-smp_1%3a2.6.18+5_i386.deb) ...
> Setting up kernel-image-2.6-686-smp (2.6.18+5) ...
> 
> However, nothing seems to be installed.  There are no new files in / or
> /boot.  Where is the kernel and the initrd?

That package should depend on another package.  Oh and I think debian
now calls them 'linux-image-...' rather than 'kernel-image-...'.  Maybe
that makes a difference.

I think the package you want is:
linux-image-2.6-686
which should depend on:
linux-image-2.6.18-686

You can optionally install linux-image-2.6-686-smp which simply depends
on linux-image-2.6-686 (all debian's kernels appear to be SMP enabled
now).

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