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Re: [LUG] Impressive AMD 64 Etch install

 

On Nov 13, 2006, Benjamin A'Lee was like:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:23:57AM +0000, Tony Sumner wrote:
> > 1. After the install I have two kernels, 2.6.16-2-amd64 and
> >    2.6.16-2-amd64-generic, also there is a module 'generic'.  What are
> >    these doing and is it ok to delete the generic kernel?
> 
> IIRC, that's not two kernels - one is a dummy package. 

No, 2.6.16-2-amd64-generic is a kernel, with an image in /boot and an
entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst and all. Still it doesn't seem to be doing
anything so I'll delete it. Just another Debian oddity :-)

Tony
 

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