Re: Kernel Help, please

["Andy Mulhearn"<Andy_Mulhearn cwb com>]

Andy Mulhearn CWB
14/09/98 17:30

No, no, no. Don't upgrade it may go horribly wrong. You're better of
installing the new kernel and adding an entry to lilo.conf to allow you to
select it at boot time. Then when you are sure the kernel is OK and works
as you expect, remove the old kernel from lilo and make the new one the
default. You can then rpm -e the original kernel. RedHat have instructions
on their website for this or refer to the lilo howto to see how to add
another kernel.

You only need ibcs if you want to run binaries that were not built
specifically for linux, for some other UNIX that is. PCMCIA is only needed
if you use a laptop, or a very odd Desktop with a PC Card add on. You also
only need the source if you want to build your own kernel.

Hope this helps,

Andy


On 14/09/98 16:31:54 Dominik Rothert  wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 02:12:52PM +0100,
>              Antonio Cardoso wrote ...
>
>
>> First of all sorry, about my English...
>
>(I exactly know what you mean ;-)
>
>
>> kernel-headers-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm, kernel-ibcs-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm,
>> kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm, kernel-source-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
>
>> I think that is all i need?
>
>I think you needn?t the pcmcia package. I don?t know what the
>kernel*ibcs* package is - I only use official kernel sources ;-)
>
>> If i?m correct, what i do now?
>
>Ok. Become root and type at your prompt:
>
>rpm -U kernel-headers-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
>       kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.0.35-2.i386.rpm
>
>That?s all! -U means that you?d like to upgrade an older version of
>this package.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>     Dominik
>
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