On Wednesday 15 May 2002 18.30, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I have just downloaded a kernel from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/RPM/
These are experimental kernels. Use with caution. Don't use at all on production systems.
If this were a normal package I would use rpm to install it with no hesitation.
Being the kernel, I want to make sure I don't kill my machine.
What are the recommended steps for installing the above, and for booting from the current kernel if I have problems.
It's a little tricky, since they're both 2.4.18. They will want to use the same modules directory. Normally, when you go to a different revision number, you'd do mv /boot/vmlinuz.suse /boot/vmlinuz.suse.bak mv /lib/modules/<current version> /lib/modules/<current version>.bak rpm -Uvh k_deflt.rpm (or whatever the filename was) mv /boot/vmlinuz.suse.bak /boot/vmlinuz.suse mv /lib/modules/<current version>.bak /lib/modules/<current version> /sbin/mk_initrd /sbin/lilo When you upgrade to a later build of the same revision level, there is no easy way to keep the old and the new modules directory at the same time. As far as I can see, you're forced to recompile one or the other and set a different version lable regards Anders