[98645] in RedHat Linux List
Re: kernel upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cifreo)
Mon Nov 9 22:43:30 1998
From: Eric Cifreo <eric@kazan.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 48409 20:20:09 -0600
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Michael Butler wrote:
>A kernel "newbie" question,
>
>I'm running RedHat 5.0 and was browsing the Errata. I see a kernel
>upgrade in the errata. I've never upgraded my kernel using rpm before.
>Is it as straight forward as "rpm -Uvh kernel-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm" or
>should I take any precautions first? I've never had any problems with
>RPM before.
>
>Thanks
>Mike
>
Definitely, DO NOT do this. This will blow away your old kernel.
You can move the old kernel out of the way safely, like "mv vmlinux
vmlinux.old" or "mv zImage zImage.old", and then say
"rpm -ivh kernel-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm." You should then check /etc/lilo.conf
and edit it to make both your old and new kernels possible boot options.
Check out "man lilo."
Hope that gets you started....
Oh, and the KERNEL HOWTO would make good reading as well. (www.linux-howto.com)
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX
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