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From: Chorzów, Poland

Registered: 2006-03-25

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Kernel 2.6.22 near 2.6.23?

Could I have two vanilla kernels on one machine? I want to test new Kernel 2.6.23, but I don't want to have it as default. The best solution is choosing in grub which kernel have to be run. But when I'm installing Kernel 2.6.23 from testing repo it's removing Kernel 2.6.22 ... Have someone some ideas to install it near old Kernel, not upgrading the old one?

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Re: Kernel 2.6.22 near 2.6.23?

Extract the package onto your root and run the post-install script manually. Or you can rename the new package and see if you can install it that way.

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ise

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Re: Kernel 2.6.22 near 2.6.23?

Or you can rename the new package and see if you can install it that way.

Renaming the package doesn't help anything. The information is stored inside the package. You can rebuild it on your own and change in the kernel config the name and package name. Problem then is, that you must build all external module against this new kernel (e.g. nvidia, etc.)

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From: Chorzów, Poland

Registered: 2006-03-25

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Re: Kernel 2.6.22 near 2.6.23?

Hmm, so It's problem for me - I've never compile Kernel Maybe I just install Kernel 2.6.23 if it's 'stable'. Tnaks guys.

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