On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:00:54 -0600, Jamin W Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV said: >> > >> > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a >> > pain, especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or >> > config >> >> Why on earth are you hand editing the lilo.conf file for every >> kernel image? > Well, if they move from an installation kernel to a kernel-image > package, they have to add an entry for an initrd file. After that, > if they upgrade to another kernel-image package and want to be able > to use both the new and the old they need to edit the old entry for > an initrd too. If you are going to bounce back and forth between initrd and non initrd kernels, you should modify the sample postinst-hook script and maintain two sets of symlinks -- one for initrd ekrnels, and one for plain ones. Bingo. No need to edit the lilo.conf every time. manoj -- pediddel: A car with only one working headlight. "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024R/C7261095 print CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C