[101270] in RedHat Linux List
Re: 2.0.36-1 kernel upgrade question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 13:24:21 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:11:41 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: rwcanary@mail.lig.bellsouth.net,
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Robert Canary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jyan-Min Fang wrote:
> >
> > why not just use
> >
> > rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm
> >
> > to upgrade the kernel source and headers file? no need to leave the old
> > source and headers around. After all, you still have to recompile the
> > kernel if you install the source and headers, don't you?
> >
> > I think "rpm -ivh" is suggested for the kernel-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm and
> > kernel-modules-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm.
> >
> > Jyan-Min Fang
> >
>
> Oh no, Please do not suggest that. Kernel rpms should also completely
> overwrite the old one.
No. It should not overwrite the old one!
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html
You want both installed so you can boot from either - comes in handy
when you are trying something new and you want to check how the
old one did it. Don't overwrite or remove the old kernel until later
when you are pretty sure you won't need it.
If you mess up a new kernel, it's nice to still have the old one bootable :-)
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Jan Carlson
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