On Monday 22 October 2007 01:49:46 am Michael Fischer wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, Ben Kevan wrote: > > Hey Michael, > > > > It is pretty simple to install your own Kernel, esp. using the HEAD > > repo.. > > > > Add the following to your YaST Repositories: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/KMP/openSUSE_Factory_KO > >TD_HEAD/ > > Problem is... I don't want to run into the side effect of having > my kernel *replaced*. I want to install a second one. > > Not sure if the replacement misbehavior is a speciality of zypper, > or of Yast as well, but best to play safe. I meant to install the > rpms by means of cli "rpm -i ...." > > Thanks. > > > Michael > -- > Michael Fischer > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Michael, No problem at all then, I've done this on many machines to test kernels etc. You can just download the needed RPMS (I guess that was your original question) from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ The only required is the one that goes with your architecture (ie. mine is i586), so I would download the default.i586, I would also download the kernel-source package since I need to compile some things including VMWare. If you have any hardware that relies an non-oss KMP, then download the corresponding from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/KMP/openSUSE_Factory_KOTD_HEAD/ Just to kind of show you what you need, do a rpm -qa | grep kernel This will tell you what you have installed, and you'll just have to download the new version of those same things.. and install using sudo rpm -ivh kernel.... Just to demonstrate, I went ahead and did this on my machine.. now I show: rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-default-2.6.23.1-104.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.22-19 kernel-source-2.6.22.9-0.4 kernel-default-2.6.22.9-0.4 kernel-source-2.6.23.1-104.1 and kmp: rpm -qa | grep kmp iwlwifi-kmp-default-1.1.0_2.6.22.5_31-2 ipw3945-kmp-default-1.2.2_2.6.23.1_104.1-5.13 nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-100.14.19_2.6.22.5_30-1.1 ipw3945-kmp-default-1.2.2_2.6.22.5_31-5.18 Of course I had to install nvidia using the downloadable install script, but everything else went great. Cheers and good luck. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
