I'm sure most of you know this already but I didn't so I'll share it in
case it's usefull to anyone.
As of late on Cooker, new dev and MAKEDEV packages have been coming fast
and furious. I thought that dev got mounted fairly early on
in the boot process (as in one of the first things). As such it was a
major pain to upgrade these packages as you couldn't simply
freshen/upgrade them in the normal fashions. One had to use Mandrake
Install or one of the ISO installs/upgrades - or so I thought and was
told by others.
Not so I discovered. If you enter single user mode from LILO, you can
force upgrade these packages from your harddrive and reboot and poof, ur
ready to rock.
For those that don't know how - at the LILO splash screen simply hit
esc. and that takes you to a command prompt. Type Linux -s and you'll be
at the Linux CLI in single user mode (no graphics). From here, upgrade
the packages and then reboot - simple huh??
Hope this helps someone.
Regards,
Jason Greenwood
