Hi guys,
Got a funny situation here and I am not sure how to proceed. I have a home server here, and I wanted to upgrade it to nine, or upgrade the 8.2 kernel to the security update version.. I haven't up till now because for some reason this system will not boot from the hdd and needs a floppy. (it started out that the bios didn't see the drive properly, so I put in a UDMA100 card and it works, but it still won't boot off the drive, and I have to use a floppy.) So, my question is thus... If I install the new kernel.. and all goes well, can I still boot off the old boot disk?? I ask, because I am not sure how to create a new boot disk without using the new kernel to do it.. and if I can't load the new kernel from the old disk, I am not able to do it at all... So what do I do here??? I would actually prefer to get 8.2 fully patched rather then run 9.0 on this box because it all works now. and mdk9 has perl5.8 and I've heard many of the packages I run have problems with 5.8, also the postfix is chrooted (so I hear) and apparently has symlink problems.. For many reasons, I don't want a kernel with security issues running on that box.. (it has a 9 gig software archive for my network running on it for one thing...) so I would love to upgrade it, but the whole boot disk thing has me wondering how to go about it.. normally I'd just go ahead and try it, and eventually I'd work it out, but this box is also used for many testing services to other networks, so I can't afford it to be done for long... anyone have any ideas on this one??? regards Frank
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