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Re: RPMS modules to upgrade kernel

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Fri Oct 30 11:47:44 1998

Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:44:49 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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Zoki wrote:
> 
> Could somebody mail me a list of all the RPMS needed to upgrade the
> kernel? I downloaded the 2.0.34-2, then found out I need the initscripts,
> downloaded them, then found out I need the modutils...here I stopped
> because it smells like I'm going to spend hours on downloading the damn'
> things. The problem is I have to connect each time I want to get
> something.

Essentially all you need to do is find what is installed currently on
your system, do a 'rpm -qa | grep kernel' and install the newer rpm's. 
Initscripts and modutils are updates.

Don't forget to edit and run lilo (or whatever else you use as your boot
manager).

J

-- 
Jeff Sharpe
Senior Developer, SFG Tech.


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