On Monday 06 January 2003 7:07 pm, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
It depends, which is why I would rather use a console to update my kernel with the rpm command than a GUI frontend that hides any feedback. Some of the last few Mantel kernels already run mkinitrd, and if you used GRUB, that would be enough. So, it depends on what the kernel rpm does. Another thing, the Mantel kernel only updates the one kernel image (/boot/vmlinuz) and not the one for failsafe (/boot/vmlinuz.suse), so when I see that when the rpm runs mkinitrd and fails to create the failsafe initrd, I know I need to copy vmlinuz to vmlinuz.suse. So, even though it is quite easy to upgrade, it is still not a no brainer, but since I usually get the latest kernel from Mantel (for testing and 'having fun' :-) ), I don't expect a no brainer, I expect to need to think. I actually prefer that, one of Linux's freedoms. YMMV
I'm not quite to the point where I can confidently do things from the command
line. Perhaps someday soon i'll be less gui dependent. One can only hope ...
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Franklin Maurer