On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 05:24, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 6:04 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 14:04, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > OK - but this will install, not upgrade, won't it? If so, I'll try it > > > this weekend. Thanks > > > > Yes ... and you want to install.. not upgrade. Also to Once it's done > > be sure to edit the lilo.conf on your box. Your old kernel says > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz > > > > and > > > > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > > > > you need to make these point directly and the original vmlinuz and > > intrd.img or else both will boot to the new kernel and none for the old > > one. > > > > So for example > > > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19mdk > > > > and > > > > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19mdk.img > > > > and rerun lilo..... This way if anything goes wrong for you you still > > can boot to the old kernel and all is repairable easily. > > > Thanks, James. I already have that, as I have 8.2 on another partition, no > longer used and soon to be removed. (I presume this just means reformat the > partition and remove any reference in fstab and lilo?)
Should be enough... Oh yeah rerun lilo after the edit.*grin*... James > > Anne
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