On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:38 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote: > Hello, I'm downloading a precompiled low-latency kernel 2.6.7.1 rpm from > Mandrake Cooker to upgrade from 2.6.3.7 to facilitate multimedia > development. According to Mandrake's Ref manual, rpm install should > keep versions isolated and update Lilo so I can select which version I > want at bootup. Any caveats here I need to know about ? I'm going to > backup /boot, /etc/ beforehand. Any other things I need to know about, > points of no return etc ?
Mandrake's kernel RPMs are generally pretty safe (even from cooker). It will leave your current kernel in place and I think it even leaves it as the default boot option. If you're using any proprietary drivers though, you'll need to upgrade them as well (nvidia drivers for example). you should probably do the actual installation with urpmi because I suspect it will want to pull down a newer module-utils, mkinitrd etc. You can give urpmi a filename and it will operate just like 'rpm - ivh' (but resolve dependencies for you). Oh yes, if you do use rpm to install it, use '-i', not '-U'. Though I don't actually think it'll make a difference. I've not used the 'mm' kernels from mandrake though, so I can't speak for the stability of the kernel itself. HTH, James. -- James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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