Thanks for the additional tips, much appreciated. It's nice to know I can now Freshen all of Cooker at once... =)
Cheers, Jason Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 04:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >>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. > > > <snip over-complicated workaround> > > Um, nope. If you're upgrading from a post-3.3 version to another > post-3.3 version, you can upgrade as normal. If you're upgrading from a > pre-3.2 version, all you need to do is ensure devfs isn't mounted; > simply boot in failsafe mode, or edit lilo.conf, change the linux option > from "devfs=mount" to "devfs=nomount", run lilo, and reboot. Then you > can upgrade dev and MAKEDEV through rpmdrake or urpmi as per usual. Then > just reboot (setting lilo back to original if necessary) and you're > done. No need for boot disks, rescue CDs, single-user mode, panic of any > sort...=). This is all in the archives, if you look.
