Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y Get:1 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main udev 0.105-4 [263kB] Get:2 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main initramfs-tools 0.85g [63.3kB] Get:3 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12 [16.3MB] Get:4 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu stable/main linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.18+6 [2042B] Fetched 16.6MB in 24s (687kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 23219 files and directories currently installed.) Removing hotplug ... (Reading database ... 23193 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace coreutils 5.2.1-2 (using .../coreutils_5.97-5.3_i386.deb) ... No diversion `any diversion of /usr/share/man/man1/md5sum.textutils.1.gz', none removed No diversion `any diversion of /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils', none removed Unpacking replacement coreutils ... Replacing files in old package dpkg ... Setting up coreutils (5.97-5.3) ... (Reading database ... 23223 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace module-init-tools 3.2-pre1-2 (using .../module-init-tools_3.3-pre4-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement module-init-tools ... Selecting previously deselected package libklibc. Unpacking libklibc (from .../libklibc_1.4.34-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package klibc-utils. Unpacking klibc-utils (from .../klibc-utils_1.4.34-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package busybox. Unpacking busybox (from .../busybox_1%3a1.1.3-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libvolume-id0. Unpacking libvolume-id0 (from .../libvolume-id0_0.105-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package udev. Unpacking udev (from .../archives/udev_0.105-4_i386.deb) ... ************************************************************** * Please purge the hotplug package! * (/etc/init.d/hotplug has been found on this system) ************************************************************** Selecting previously deselected package initramfs-tools. Unpacking initramfs-tools (from .../initramfs-tools_0.85g_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. Unpacking linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6.18-4-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12_i386.deb) ... Done. Selecting previously deselected package linux-image-2.6-686. Unpacking linux-image-2.6-686 (from .../linux-image-2.6-686_2.6.18+6_i386.deb) ... Setting up module-init-tools (3.3-pre4-2) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases ... Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/module-init-tools ... Setting up libklibc (1.4.34-1) ... Setting up klibc-utils (1.4.34-1) ... Setting up busybox (1.1.3-4) ... Setting up libvolume-id0 (0.105-4) ... Setting up udev (0.105-4) ... sed: can't read /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules: No such file or directory udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.15, not started. Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85g) ... Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/source However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/source Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686 Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done Setting up linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.18+6) ... debian:/etc/apt# man reboot Reformatting reboot(8), please wait... debian:/etc/apt#