Dave, Take the highest-numbered kernel that has an existing IBM OCO package. You will only need one. You won't need the kernel-BOOT one, since that's used for creating installation images. Whether you install the other ones depends on your needs. Take a look at their contents (rpm -qlp package.name.rpm) and see if you want them. There will be some overlap, so watch out for that. If you decide to install the kernel-source one, you won't need the kernel-headers one, since that is just a subset of the full kernel source.
All of your file systems should still be mounted in single user mode. If not, do a "mount -a" command and they will be. RPM will definitely run at that point, but I imagine it would anyway. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Dave Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sanity Check! Steps to apply Updates -- Followup Questions Thanks for the replies. Couple of followup questions: 1. I noticed there are multiple levels of kernel-** RPM's out there. Do I just update using the highest numbered ones? (i.e. just kernel-2.4.9-37...) or do I have to do both the 2.4.9-31 and then the 2.4.9-37 ?? Also, does it matter what order I updated the various RPM's. (i.e. kernel- kernel-BOOT, kernel-doc, kernel-headers, kernel-source etc.) 2. I read about single user mode. Seems like not much is mounted or running in single user mode. Will RPM run OK in this mode? 3. Observation: Also read that RPM itself may need to be updated first, before running the other RPMs; however, in the S/390 updates I see not RPM for RPM, so I'm assuming I'll be ok. Tia Dave In a message dated 5/22/2002 11:18:34 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Dave, > > I haven't looked at all the updates on the Red Hat site, so I can't be > sure, > but you will probably want to take your system down to single user mode > (telinit -s) before you install the RPMs. For updates that replace core > system components, this is usually considered best practice. If there's a > kernel update in there, and I think there is, you'll need to download the > corresponding OCO modules from IBM to replace the one(s) you have now. > > Mark Post >
