FC3 kerenl...

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Sat Apr 23 17:48:43 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 10:47 -0700, bruce wrote:
> and why is this bad??
> 
> also, if i already have a kernel installed, can i simply do a 'rpm -Uvh
> newkernel.rpm' with no issues?
> 
> -bruce
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
> Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 10:42 AM
> To: Glamous; For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: FC3 kerenl...
> 
> 
> Am Sa, den 23.04.2005 schrieb Glamous um 19:35:
> 
> > mine is  2.6.9-1.667
> > without update
> 
> ... and that is bad.
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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> Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.14_FC2smp
> Serendipity 19:41:11 up 11 days, 16:21, load average: 0.15, 0.17, 0.13
> 

No!

rpm -ivh newkernel.rpm

Typically you install, not update new kernels.  That way if the new one
doesn't work you can fall back through grub to the old one.

Bob...




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