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Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Thu Jul 22 20:12:03 UTC 2004


On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:19:09 +0000, mmarkiw at speakeasy.net wrote:

> When you say you can't load it, what are you trying to load it with?  Since it is an rpm, can you just do rpm -U (for upgrade) /mnvt/cdrom/kernel.xxx.xx.rpm?
> 

Kernel packages should not be upgraded with -U, but installed with -i, so
the user keeps the old/previous kernel and its modules installed. Very
useful as long as the system keeps running before next reboot and even
more useful in case the new one fails to boot.





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