On 14/08/00 15:23 +0530, Robin Chatterjee spewed into the LI bitstream:
> By the way shanu I had done a rpm -Uvh and it removed my previous
> kernel. Looking at the redhat installation procedure I noticed that they
> mentioned to do a rpm -ivh ( install) instread of an upgrade so as to
> preserve the previous kernel. Am I mistaken or is your article in
> PCquest misleading ?
Actually, preserving the previous kernel is good - just as making backups
before an upgrade is good. You can very well go on and do an rpm -Uvh to
overwrite your previous kernel - but if there is some fsckup in the process
(say a faulty rpm - or some feature you want gone missing) you are up shit
creek without a paddle.
On the other hand, if you do rpm -ivh new-kernel.rpm and verify that it works,
you can safely do an rpm --erase old-kernel.rpm and if the new kernel doesn't
work out it is always easy to revert to the old kernel rpm ;)
Common sense precaution, that's all. Shanu's article is not misleading as
such.
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