I'm sure most of you know this already but I didn't so I'll share it in 
case it's usefull to anyone.

As of late on Cooker, new dev and MAKEDEV packages have been coming fast 
and furious as of late. I thought that dev got mounted fairly early on 
in the boot process (as in one of the first things). As such it was a 
major pain to upgrade these packages as you couldn't simply 
freshen/upgrade them in the normal fashions. One had to use Mandrake 
Install or one of the ISO installs/upgrades - or so I thought and was 
told by others.

Not so I discovered. If you enter single user mode from LILO, you can 
force upgrade these packages from your harddrive and reboot and poof, ur 
ready to rock.

For those that don't know how - at the LILO splash screen simply hit 
esc. and that takes you to a command prompt. Type Linux -s and you'll be 
at the Linux CLI in single user mode (no graphics). From here, upgrade 
the packages and then reboot - simple huh??

Hope this helps someone.

Regards,

Jason Greenwood

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