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Hey John. Thanks for the reply. I, personally, do not need this
upgrade, but for some reason apt-get dist-upgrade does and also wants
to remove the module-init-tools package. I am running a 2.6 kernel.
Perhaps there is some package management issues with FC3 and apt. Has
anyone encountered similiar problems?<br>
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From: John Summerfield <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:debian@herakles.homelinux.org"><debian@herakles.homelinux.org></a>
Subject: Re: module-init-tools removale?
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a>
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On Friday 19 November 2004 20:56, Raffi Khatchadourian wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Has anyone received this message when performing a apt-get dist-upgrade
on FC3?
[root@cosby ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
module-init-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
modutils
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
module-init-tools (due to kernel#2.6.9-1.667)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/624kB of archives.
After unpacking 882kB of additional disk space will be used.
You are about to do something potentially harmful
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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I've not yet used FC, but I have been using Debian for a while.
You need module-init-toolsn for your 2.6 kernel; modutils simply will not do
the job.
If you have a 2.4 kernel you can boot you should be okay, but it's something
you will need to sort out.
If you can, I recommend a backup.
If you can't do that, then make a boot image (CD?) you can use to boot from
after the "upgrade."
It looks like it might make the system unbootable, but perhaps not hard to
recover.
Alternatively, do you need this upgrade?
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