-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 July 2002 10:57 pm, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> A look at updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386 reveals that only > kernel-2.4.18-3 has a update (kernel-2.4.18-5), so does this mean that > I'm golden on the other packages? I'm thinking yes. > > So then the process to upgrade the kernel should then be: > > 1. run rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-5.i386.rpm > 2. check /boot for: > System.map -> System.map-2.4.18-5 > config-2.4.18-3 > initrd-2.4.18-5.img > module-info -> module-info-2.4.18-5 > vmlinux-2.4.18-5 > vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 > 3. Add to /boot/grub/grub.conf: > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/hda2 > initrd /initrd-2.4.18-5.img > > Steps 2 and 3 might, in fact, be taken care of already. The > documentation at > http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/ > was a bit outdated... but none the less! Steps 2 and 3 should be handled automagically. > Sound about right? Any insight? I'm doing this manually because I > want to see the process and I have a bunch of systems to do it on. If > the first one goes ok then I will probably do rpm -Uvh > kernel-2.4.18-5.i386.rpm Sounds about right, though I'd use rpm -ivh in all cases for a kernel upgrade. The i386 kernel is the correct arch for all your machine(s)? 'up2date kernel' should handle the task painlessly as well. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj004qIACgkQn/07WoAb/Sv4tgCdF1/PR1v3pGJvMupAMTngmzCu VVoAnRoDyWUWo5KNHQIrna0LsKeLcmhr =YtWG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
