"Christopher Blizzard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jens-Ulrik Petersen wrote:
>
> > I just tried upgrading from rawhide mozilla-20001211-0.i386.rpm to
> > mozilla-20001228-0.i386.rpm on a system running RH 7.0.1J with various
> > updates with rawhide p
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Did you rpm -i or rpm -F your kernel?
With rpm -i (thank goodness!)
> I have seen this problem when you rpm -F which then overwrites the
> kernel that you systems booted with. When then attempting to make a
> new ramdisk with mkinitrd, this mes
Thanks for your reply.
"John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are they there?
> [summer@dugite summer]$ ls /dev/loop?
> brw-rw1 root 7, 0 May 6 1998 /dev/loop0
> brw-rw1 root 7, 1 May 6 1998 /dev/loop1
> brw-rw1 root 7, 2 May 6 1998
Thanks for the fast reply, Bill.
"Bill Nottingham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jens-Ulrik Petersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> > I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and trying to upgrade to
> > 2.4.0-0.43.12 (before that also tried 2.4.0-0.43.11).
"Edward S. Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A word to the wise: if you don't currently need initrd to get your system
> online, don't blindly upgrade to 2.4.0-0.43.4; do:
>
> mkinitrd -v /boot/initrd-2.4.0-0.43.4.img 2.4.0-0.43.4
I am running kernel-2.4.0-0.37.i686 currently and
I just tried upgrading from rawhide mozilla-20001211-0.i386.rpm to
mozilla-20001228-0.i386.rpm on a system running RH 7.0.1J with various
updates with rawhide package over the last months.
When I start up mozilla-20001228-0, the messages
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nsNativ
>From an upgrade point of view the biggest obstacles to upgrading from
6.x seem to be rpm-4.0, glibc-2.2pre (and XF86-4.0). How hard is it
to do the upgrade "by hand" ie using rpm?
Comments and advice appreciated.
Jens
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"Prasanth A. Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jens-Ulrik Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok, I give in... this seems to be one of the better kept secrets in
> > distribution land, though I know it has been discussed here before.
> >
Ok, I give in... this seems to be one of the better kept secrets in
distribution land, though I know it has been discussed here before.
How can I upgrade smoothly from rpm-3 to rpm-4 (without downloading an
iso cdrom image, and preferably without a reboot)? The question might
have been where can
