James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:26, Avi Schwartz wrote:
>> Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the
>> latest Security Advisory since they say there:
>>
>> "To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade
>> manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server
>> mirrors and upgrade with "rpm -Fvh *.rpm"."
>
> Not quite... if you do Fvh... things could get real spooky. You
> never upgrade or freshen a kernel.. It always has to be installed (ivh )
> otherwise all of the proper scripts to bind it to your computer will not
> get run and the end result will be...... a bit bucket.
Oh yea, foo. What he said.
Like I said in *my* original reply to the poster, use -ivh to install the
new kernel and -e to remove the old one.
Quit confusing me! :-)
--Dave
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