[98691] in RedHat Linux List
Re: kernel upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Tue Nov 10 05:40:44 1998
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 04:39:20 -0600
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Michael Butler sniveled:
>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.
Absolutely _NOT_ that way!!! Upgrading a running kernel like that
ensures problems!
See the kernel upgrade page at RedHat for a howto on doing it. It
explicitly tells you you should use -ivh instead of -Uvh and has the
other info necessary to getting it to load.
--
I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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