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Re: [suse-amd64] Kernel 2.6 update HOWTO
- From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:21:07 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20040312152034.GE7011@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:11:55AM -0800, Mike Rosing wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Quy NGUYEN DAI wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > We have a workstation amd64 with updated kernel 2.4.x of SUSE 9.0.
> > We would like to update to kernel 2.6 (rpm in ftp.suse.{de,com}). What's
> > is the safe way to do that by keeping the current updated kernel 2.4 ?
>
> The safest thing is to use a different partition. You need separate
> directories for all the files in /etc/* and /lib/modules/*. I'm sure
> the experts here will know alternatives.
That's not true. It works just fine on the same partition and the
same /etc
-Andi
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Quy NGUYEN DAI wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > We have a workstation amd64 with updated kernel 2.4.x of SUSE 9.0.
> > We would like to update to kernel 2.6 (rpm in ftp.suse.{de,com}). What's
> > is the safe way to do that by keeping the current updated kernel 2.4 ?
>
> The safest thing is to use a different partition. You need separate
> directories for all the files in /etc/* and /lib/modules/*. I'm sure
> the experts here will know alternatives.
That's not true. It works just fine on the same partition and the
same /etc
-Andi
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