[plug] Debian install age

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Sun Nov 7 21:17:17 WST 2004


On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:10, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Brock Woolf wrote:
> > 
> >> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root root  715260 May 19  1999 vmlinuz-2.0.36
> >> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1110322 Oct 22  2003 vmlinuz-2.4.22
> >> -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1429108 Feb 15  2004 vmlinuz-2.6.3-rc2-mm1
> >> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      14 Oct 22  2003 vmlinuz.old -> 
> >> vmlinuz-2.4.22
> > 
> > 
> > Kernel version 2.0.36. OK, now where is my boiled sweeties! ;-P
> 
> Great, now which Debian distribution came with 2.0.36 ?

Slinky.
> 
> Actually, it's a bit of an odd one. This is the 5th laptop and 7th hard disk this distribution has 
> been on without actually being re-installed. I just apt-get dist-upgrade the distro, and use some 
> self built boot floppies to use tar -cz / | nc to move the whole shebang over onto a new laptop when 
> I upgrade.
> 
> I really probably could do with a re-install, but if it ain't broke....
> 
> Brad
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