Re: [newbie] Kernel installation(Long message)

[Gilbert Espinosa]

Cindy Pearce wrote:

> I have seen various messages on this list about updating the kernel so I
> thought I would share my experiences. IMHO, the easiest way is to use the
> RPMs built by Mandrake from
> ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
> S/kernel/
>
> I downloaded kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386 and kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386 into
> a directory I created on my hard drive. I checked both by changing to the
> directory I downloaded them to and using the command:
>
> rpm -K --nopgp *rpm
>
> Both should return a "size md5 ok" . I then installed both of them using the
> commands:
>
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
> rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
>
> This automatically installed a directory in /usr/src called
> 2.2.5-mdk and a file in /boot called vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk.
>
> I then downloaded all the file updates from:
> ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
> S/updates/
>
> and checked them using the same command as before then installed them using:
>
> rpm -Uvh *.rpm
>
> I then edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to add the following lines right after
> the "timeout=50" line:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk
>       label=new
>       root=/dev/hda(whatever your boot partition is)
>       read-only
>
> I then issued the command /sbin/lilo and received confirmation that "new"
> had been added. It should be noted that I do not boot from a SCSI disk so I
> do not need a "initrd=...." line in my lilo.conf file. I then rebooted and
> selected "new" at the LILO boot prompt and booted a preconfigured kernel.
>
> If you want to recompile the preconfigured kernel, you must also download
> and install
> kernel-source-2.2.5-5mdk.i386.rpm. If you do not have pgcc installed as your
> compiler, you need to make the changes listed at:
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
>
> There are also various fixes for post kernel installation problems found
> there.
>
> YMMV and corrections to my method encouraged,
>
> HTH,
>
> Cindy

Is ncftp still working after the upgrade? I tried this a few weeks ago and
ncftp stopped working. My old sound configuration for 2.0.36 also was not
accepted by the new OPL3-SA2 module that came with the 2.2.5 ac3 kernel.

Gilbert