386 vs 686 kernel? And uninstall linux-image-2.6.15-21-386 removes Linux-386?

[Adam Conrad]

Chanchao wrote:
> 
> 1. If I mark the old one, linux-image-2.6.15-21-386, for removal, then
> it also wants to remove Linux-386... Would that be bad?  I thought
> Linux-386 would just point to the current version, which is
> linux-image-2.6.15-23-386 ?

This would happen if sometime in the last week or two you disabled the
"restricted" repository, so now you're only getting new linux-image
packages (from main) but not new linux-restricted-modules packages.
Since "linux-$flavour" depends on both, it is in restricted.

> 2. Should I be using *386 at all?  My computer is a Pentium 3, so would
> *686 be better?

You should ideally "apt-get install linux-686", yes.

... Adam