On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi folks: > > > > There is a new kernel displayed for the XO1 when a yum update is done on > a > > vanilla 883 machine. > > > > Being adventurous, I did the yum update kernel separately, then did the > cp - > > ..... instruction from the readme. > > > > uname -a shows the new kernel is running. > > > > However, it looks to me that the old kernel files remain in /boot and the > > .../current ... directories. Some with '111005' in their name would > appear > > to me to be the old ones and the new ones would be those with '111026' in > > their name > > > > Is there any appreciable advantage to manually removing the old files, or > > conversely is there any disadvantage? > > You should follow the procedure here > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel#Installing_kernel_RPMs > I thought I did :-( I'm just installing onto a jffs2 XO-1, no building, just an install, so I did the basics: an install then the copy. Did I miss something in the install that left the old files around? The instructions didn't seem to specify an install command, so I used yum update kernel. Should I try an rpm command instead? Thanks KG > > Peter >
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