* Kingsly John [linux-india] <22/05/01 19:18 +0530>:
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> | I have a feeling he's talking about rpm -Uvh kernel-x.xx.xx-x.rpm and not
> | the usual make config ... make install routine.
> Yes but even that is not as straight forward as upgrading other packages!
> and don't *ever* do an -Uvh on the kernel... if the upgrade fscks up...
> then you will be left with a machine with no OS !!
Not a bad idea, if you try it out ;) Best thing is what was documented in
that PCQ article about upgrading kernels from RPM -- rpm -ivh, then
mkinitrd, then run lilo after updating lilo.conf
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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