I learned something new today. In SLES11, if you want to be able to install new kernels, and keep your older version(s), you can modify /etc/zypp/zypp.conf to do that. The default is to not allow that, as the parameter in zypp.conf is commented out: # multiverson = kernel-default,kernel-smp
To enable that, create a new line with the list of kernel "flavors" you want to have enabled: multiversion = kernel-default,kernel-default-base For SLES11 SP1, you have a bit more flexibility. You can use the same list of RPM packages, or you can specify: multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel) Beginning with SP1, SLES11 kernels, both the "normal" and "-base" ones, will show "multiversion(kernel)" if you do an "rpm -q --provides" on them. Note that this functionality is not limited to just the kernel packages, but they're the only ones I know of (without digging further) that can have multiple versions installed concurrently without problems. The downside to this, of course, is that now the system administrator is responsible for deciding when to remove older versions. This means that you could conceivably fill up /boot (or if you don't split /boot out of the root file system even / in extreme cases) if you're not paying attention to how much space is being used. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
