On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:50:35PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu>)u>):
If we just install the RedHat RPMs it should in theory be fairly painless,
but I'm not too familiar with how the red hat boot goodies are set up or
how to make it fall back to the previous kernel after the first reboot if
the new one doesn't work.
I'm fairly familiar with how to do that (just having done it on
my test machine a few times), but it requires a boot floppy or CD
(and therefore the 3-hour trip for Jason).
I'm pretty sure if it breaks, you can still select the old kernel from a
list (RH uses GRUB, I believe). So, you still have to be there once to
boot it to the old kernel, and then you can change the boot
configuration. Still, are we really going to want to jump to 2.6 right away
after it comes out? 2.4 had quite a bit of teething problems until
fairly late in the game.
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Nick Reinking -- eschewing obfuscation since 1981 -- Minneapolis, MN