On 06 Dec 2001 19:18:50 +1100 Myles Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a newbie and I'm just trying to get my mind around upgrading with > mandrake. You might be better off at [EMAIL PROTECTED] then, before you get flamed away here :) > I've just got a ibm 600e laptop and want to put drake 8.1 on it but i > dont have the cds with me at the moment. Apparently 8.0 has an issue > with the trackpoint mouse so i installed 7.2 > > If I add a path to the 8.1 RPMs (from the cd) on another machine to > urpmi's sources and then do an auto-select is it effectly doing the same > thing as if I were to boot with the cds and choose uprgrade. Will it > also overide a custom kernel with the new binary one? Yes, in theory it should. If it doesn't work out right, you might be better off booting from cd. If you don't format your harddrive, and your custom kernel is not named vmlinuz, i don't think it will be overwritten. But the bootloader (lilo or grub) will be overwritten, and you will need to put the option for your custom kernel in it by hand I expect. -- Marcel Pol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux 2.4.13-8mdksmp, up 17 days 20:23
