Mike, About the only way I can think of is to create a 2nd image of your machine, and see if the updates work there. This is difficult if you're running on an LPAR/native, but easy if you're under VM. We took this approach. We did find some changes in the tape drivers that didn't trickle down into our initrd, so we had to modify that, and once that was done, SP3 was fine on the test machine. It will go into our production machine very shortly.
As far as I can tell, once you've applied the SP3 RPMs to the kernel, there is no turning back. Much unlike Red Hat's upgrade philosophy, your fallback components are deleted in the update process. --Jim-- James S. Tison Senior Software Engineer TPF Laboratory / Architecture IBM Corporation "If dogs don't go to heaven, then, when I die, I want to go where they do." -- Will Rogers "Geiger, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/22/2004 08:55 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Installing SP3 on SLES8 Anyone have any ideas as to where to read or a methodology on how to begin/perform this process in a safe and recoverable way? TIA, Michael A. Geiger Sr. Operating Systems Programmer CommerceQuest, Inc. 5481 W. Waters Ave. Tampa, FL 33634 Tel. 813.639.6516 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
