I have a Sony z505sx laptop I would like to upgrade from mdk-7.0 to
-7.1. I'm not enthused about having to install from scratch, and I've
seen a spectacularly unsucessful upgrade from 7.0 on another machine. So
for now, I'd like to at least install the 2.2.16 kernel to plug the
known security problems.
afaict there are no kernel updates available explicitly for 7.0. I tried
updating the kernel from the 7.1 updates area (after trying "rpm -Uvh
--test" to identify any problems; nothing was reported). However, the
7.1 kernel installation failed with a script error, apparently because
/sbin/installkernel options are not consistant with the
/sbin/installkernel already available on my machine.
It looks like it went OK up until /sbin/installkernel barfed on the "-c"
in the rpm post-install script. And other than some screwed up soft
links in /boot, it looks like the only thing missing is
/boot/module-info-2.2.16-5mdk. Any hints on how to get that generated or
from the RPM from 2.2.16? Or how to get /sbin/installkernel to work with
the new rpm??
Are there kernel updates available for 7.0 explicitly, when 7.1 is just
out and the upgrade path is problematic?
Regards.
- Tom
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Thomas Lockhart
Caltech/JPL
Interferometry Systems and Technology
