You cannot use YOU to update the kernel because there are more steps necessary
which YOU does not handle. You must download the RPM yourself, perform a rpm -Uhv
<filename>.
After you perform the upgrade you then need to run mk_initrd and then lilo. Then you get
the joy of rebooting (one of the few times you have to reboot in linux as opposed to
havnig to reboot almost everytime you do anything in windows).
You should choose 2.4.16 since it is the most recent secure kernel for the 2.4 kernel
versions. It includes some bug fixes. There had been an announcement for this some
time back. I do not know if it was on this mailing list or on the security mailing list (I do not
believe it was on this list).
Jim
01/18/02 03:03:15 PM, "Rafael E. Herrera"
I have noticed that there are RPM packages for the SuSE kernels in the update directories at the FTP site.
There are packages for version 2.4.10 and 2.4.16 for several SuSE distributions, e.g. 7.3, 7.2, etc.
There is no formal announcement nor any description on what these updates are for. YOU does not show it as an available update.
Are they security updates? Is there a reason I should choose 2.4.10 over 2.4.16? etc.
If someone has seen some description of these packages or announcement, I would appreciated it.
Rafael
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