On Monday 22 October 2007 01:49:46 am Michael Fischer wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, Ben Kevan wrote:
Hey Michael,
It is pretty simple to install your own Kernel, esp. using the HEAD repo..
Add the following to your YaST Repositories: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/KMP/openSUSE_Factory_KO TD_HEAD/
Problem is... I don't want to run into the side effect of having my kernel *replaced*. I want to install a second one.
Not sure if the replacement misbehavior is a speciality of zypper, or of Yast as well, but best to play safe. I meant to install the rpms by means of cli "rpm -i ...."
Thanks.
Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net
Hi Michael, No problem at all then, I've done this on many machines to test kernels etc. You can just download the needed RPMS (I guess that was your original question) from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/ The only required is the one that goes with your architecture (ie. mine is i586), so I would download the default.i586, I would also download the kernel-source package since I need to compile some things including VMWare. If you have any hardware that relies an non-oss KMP, then download the corresponding from: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/KMP/openSUSE_Factory_KOTD_... Just to kind of show you what you need, do a rpm -qa | grep kernel This will tell you what you have installed, and you'll just have to download the new version of those same things.. and install using sudo rpm -ivh kernel.... Just to demonstrate, I went ahead and did this on my machine.. now I show: rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-default-2.6.23.1-104.1 linux-kernel-headers-2.6.22-19 kernel-source-2.6.22.9-0.4 kernel-default-2.6.22.9-0.4 kernel-source-2.6.23.1-104.1 and kmp: rpm -qa | grep kmp iwlwifi-kmp-default-1.1.0_2.6.22.5_31-2 ipw3945-kmp-default-1.2.2_2.6.23.1_104.1-5.13 nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-100.14.19_2.6.22.5_30-1.1 ipw3945-kmp-default-1.2.2_2.6.22.5_31-5.18 Of course I had to install nvidia using the downloadable install script, but everything else went great. Cheers and good luck. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org