Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-30 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote: [...] Is information about vanilla kernels also available via a smart repository? Just to see regularly what is brewing and if some time is available to try it out? There is no smart repository. RTFM:

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-29 Thread Thomas Hertweck
Linda Walsh wrote: [...] If you are wanting to play with current vanilla kernels, though, you'll have to learn how download, extract, configure and build. Not necessarily. Vanilla kernels are available as RPMs through the opensuse build service:

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-29 Thread Constant Brouerius van nidek
On Saturday 29 December 2007 18:49:23 Thomas Hertweck wrote: Linda Walsh wrote: [...] If you are wanting to play with current vanilla kernels, though, you'll have to learn how download, extract, configure and build. Not necessarily. Vanilla kernels are available as RPMs through the

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-29 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Constant Brouerius van nidek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [12-29-07 12:27]: Is information about vanilla kernels also available via a smart repository? Just to see regularly what is brewing and if some time is available to try it out? smart accesses the

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-19 Thread Linda Walsh
M Harris wrote: I have an HP notebook running the boxed set openSUSE 10.0 I would like to upgrade the kernel *only* (modules, etc) without reinstalling openSUSE. Can this be done easily? Thanks === You can download a kernel from kernel.org and buildl it 'anytime'. I almost always

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-15 Thread David C. Rankin
M Harris wrote: I have an HP notebook running the boxed set openSUSE 10.0 I would like to upgrade the kernel *only* (modules, etc) without reinstalling openSUSE. Can this be done easily? YES and NO! Yes, you can upgrade the kernel to a later version. Making it work with later versions of

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-14 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-12-14 at 06:31 -0600, M Harris wrote: I have an HP notebook running the boxed set openSUSE 10.0 I would like to upgrade the kernel *only* (modules, etc) without reinstalling openSUSE. Can this be done easily? openSUSE 10.0 was

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/12/14 06:31 (GMT-0600) M Harris apparently typed: I have an HP notebook running the boxed set openSUSE 10.0 I would like to upgrade the kernel *only* (modules, etc) without reinstalling openSUSE. Can this be done easily? Assuming you have a working internet connection: If you want

[opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-14 Thread M Harris
I have an HP notebook running the boxed set openSUSE 10.0 I would like to upgrade the kernel *only* (modules, etc) without reinstalling openSUSE. Can this be done easily? Thanks -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] kernel upgrade question

2007-12-14 Thread M Harris
On Friday 14 December 2007 12:47, Felix Miata wrote: option 1 smart update; smart install kernel option 2 fetch the kernel you want via http/ftp/wget/etc rpm -ivh kernel kernelname option 3 go into YaST, find kernel, and select update option 4 smart