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Old 08-20-2013
Why do people here think everyone is an idiot? I'm running a Debian machine. I repeat, I'm running a Debian machine. A 5 year old can figure that out. And uname -a indeed does give me the output "2.6.32-042stab078.22". Why the hell are you doubting every single thing I say? What's the point in even replying? I'm also not giving you "arbitrary bits of information", I'm giving you exactly what the console gave me.
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Old 08-22-2013
So far, you have not been very clear in what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to install VirtualBox 4.1 on Debian Wheezy?
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Old 08-22-2013
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Originally Posted by plsbbg
Why do people here think everyone is an idiot?
Actually, i don't. I prefer to keep my opinion about you undisclosed, but nevertheless think this deserves a longer answer to clear out any misunderstandings.

Quote:
Originally Posted by plsbbg
I'm running a Debian machine. I repeat, I'm running a Debian machine. A 5 year old can figure that out.
Well, above you have that specified as "Debian Wheezy". As per the documentation of the Debian project "Wheezy" was the development codename for Debian 7 and it is shipped with kernel version 3.2.

That means, even if you have started with a Debian system you definitely do not run the Debian kernel any more now, which is what i said above. If a system with a radically different kernel still can be called "Debian" is up to discussion. I didn't dispute that you run whatever system, i just said you run a OpenVZ kernel. A five-year-old (even one not able to read) might well compare the letters for M-A-C-H-I-N-E and K-E-R-N-E-L and conclude that they are different.

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Originally Posted by plsbbg
And uname -a indeed does give me the output "2.6.32-042stab078.22".
It took me a while to get hold of a Debian system, but a sample output of uname -a looks like this in older Debian versions:

Code:
# uname -a
Linux squeeze 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 25 02:51:39 UTC 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and in newer versions:

Code:
# uname -a
Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So either your output is as you said, then you definitely run something which doesn't behave like a Debian system should or you have altered (clipped) the output of uname -a and did exactly what i called it: posted arbitrary bits of information instead of the unaltered output from the command i asked you for.

When i asked you for the output of uname -a i hoped to get the architecture (like "x86_64" or "i386" or whatever) and with - with some luck - the build date of the kernel, like in the first sample output. This is why i asked for "the output of 'uname -a'" instead of "the kernel version".

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Originally Posted by plsbbg
Why the hell are you doubting every single thing I say?
See above and ask yourself.

Quote:
Originally Posted by plsbbg
I'm also not giving you "arbitrary bits of information", I'm giving you exactly what the console gave me.
Yes - at least some parts of it which you deemed relevant. You are spot on in one point, though: i have no intention to help you any more. You are obviously much more knowledgeable than i am and i do not want to interfere with the workings of a true and proven expert.

Good luck.

bakunin

Last edited by bakunin; 08-22-2013 at 10:12 PM..
 
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