Question from a learner.
I live in a small country town in Australia and know no-one who knows anything about Linux.
I installed Hoary last August, upgraded to Breezy and have now (inadvisedly) upgraded to Dapper. My system works beautifully, and I have learnt an amazing amount about a wonderful new operating system, most of it with the help of the good people on these forums. However, there is still a huge amount of things I need to learn. Anyway, my question is this - tonight, while looking at my installed packages in Synaptic, I saw that I had 6 different kernels installed.
The first is linux-image-2.6.10.5.386, then 12.10.386, 12.9.386, 15.19.386, 15.20.386 and finally 15.21.386, which I am using now. These upgrades have all been obtained from apt-get upgrade's which I perform on a regular basis.
My question is, as I have an AMD processor, should I install the package marked linux-image-2.6.15.21.k7? If I should have that one, should I just do it through Synaptic? Or should I just leave well enough alone, as I should have done before upgrading to Dapper (not that there is anything wrong with Dapper, just my abilities with Linux). Is it safe (or advisable) to remove the kernels that I am not using? Finally, if I should have the k7 package, would I just install it and reboot or .......?
Thanks for your time and your patience
Cheers
Lowey
I live in a small country town in Australia and know no-one who knows anything about Linux.
I installed Hoary last August, upgraded to Breezy and have now (inadvisedly) upgraded to Dapper. My system works beautifully, and I have learnt an amazing amount about a wonderful new operating system, most of it with the help of the good people on these forums. However, there is still a huge amount of things I need to learn. Anyway, my question is this - tonight, while looking at my installed packages in Synaptic, I saw that I had 6 different kernels installed.
The first is linux-image-2.6.10.5.386, then 12.10.386, 12.9.386, 15.19.386, 15.20.386 and finally 15.21.386, which I am using now. These upgrades have all been obtained from apt-get upgrade's which I perform on a regular basis.
My question is, as I have an AMD processor, should I install the package marked linux-image-2.6.15.21.k7? If I should have that one, should I just do it through Synaptic? Or should I just leave well enough alone, as I should have done before upgrading to Dapper (not that there is anything wrong with Dapper, just my abilities with Linux). Is it safe (or advisable) to remove the kernels that I am not using? Finally, if I should have the k7 package, would I just install it and reboot or .......?
Thanks for your time and your patience
Cheers
Lowey
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