Well, upgrading the kernel is no pain, just get an kernel rpm. I belive
that's all.
about the rest of your question upgrading the system I'd be interested
also.
cheers,
Clemens
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Clemens Adler e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tony Garland wrote:
> Being a newcomer to Redhat 5.0 and only having had previous painful
> experience upgrading Windows NT versions, I'm curious if anyone can describe
> or point me to information regarding the "typical" sequence of steps one
> takes to upgrade Redhat from one version to another?
>
> The tiny bit of experience I've had considering upgrading the kernel
> indicates that there can be a significant ripple effect between upgrading
> the kernel, which requires upgrades to modules, which in turn require
> upgrade of some packages, which in turn require upgrade of other packages,
> etc.
>
> I'm particularly interested in how one goes about upgrading either the
> kernel or the entire redhat release (say from 5.0 to 5.1) while minimizing
> the impact on the current configuration of the machine. For example, when
> you do an upgrade, what happens to existing configuration files (such as
> those under /etc) and how can you restore proper operation of your machine
> using the previous configuration, but with the upgraded OS or kernel in
> place?
>
> (Please excuse me if this is a stupid question--I've been badly burnt on
> this in the Win95/NT world so am a bit shell-shocked about upgrades now. I
> want to pick up a change to the smbfs which is part of kernel 2.1.* and
> redhat 5.1, but want to do so while minimizing negative impact on the work
> I've put into configuration to date.)
>
>
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