Jon wrote:
If you are afraid to mess things up then don't do it! What I do not see here in your mail is _WHY_ you want to upgrade your kernel? If you just want to learn and play with these things, do it on a system you care nothing about.
Installing a SuSE RPM Kernel is quite easy:
rpm -Uvh k_i386xxxx.rpm mk_initrd lilo init 6
For roll your own
make menuconfig select all your options and save .config make clean && make modules && make modules_install && make bzlilo bzlilo calls mk_initrd, lilo, and moves the new kernel, but you should check that, I have not looked in a while
Regards,
Jon
Well, bzlilo does NOT call mk_initrd. mk_initrd is a SuSE script, and even in SuSE's kernels, they do not call their mk_initrd script. You will either have to run it manually, then rerun lilo or add it to one of the kernel makefiles in the kernel sources. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com