Ahhhhhhhh, so the -U is what causes the process to include the removal of the previous installation. That would make sense.
So in the interest of wicked uptimes, is there a way to load a new kernel image on the fly without having to reboot? That may be a stupid question; I can see how it would be a stupid question, but I figured there was at least a miniscule chance that the answer would be "well actually, yes there is..." Heh. ~Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Berninger Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:23 PM To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] installing kernel packages with rpm On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Brian Henning wrote: > Why is that? Does that mean it's bad to let up2date update the kernel? No - up2date will special case to a "-i". What would be the bad idea would be "let rpm -U install a new kernel and them remove the on-disk version of the one your running." Not recommended for daily consumption. -- John Berninger GPG Key ID: A8C1D45C Fingerprint: B1BB 90CB 5314 3113 CF22 66AE 822D 42A8 A8C1 D45C Ita erat quando hic adveni. -- -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
