On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:28:06PM -0000, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > I've never done this before, so I need a bit of simple guidance (the how to > isn't exactly an easy read). > > I've only got a 56k modem and I don't want to wait ages (i.e. all night) for > it to download the latest kernel. I have a broadband connection in work, and > I was wondering how I go about installing the latest kernel via the rpm > command. I've looked on the RH web site at their how to tips, but it doesn't > include RH8 (or GRUB by the looks of it!). Is it as simple as typing rpm > kernel or am I missing something? (Probably, I've never used rpm to install > the kernel before).
It really is as simple as rpm -ivh <kernel.rpm>. Given your situation, here's what I would do: 1. Configure up2date on your home system 2. home: up2date -p - Let RHN know what you've got 3. home: up2date -l - Keep list of what needs updating 4. work: download all the errata packages relevant to your system. You may have some dependency issues so be careful. Blast all the rpms to a CD. You may find it easier to just download all the errata for version. 5. home: mount /mnt/cdrom 6. home: up2date -k /mnt/cdrom -u What -k does is to search another directory for the packages before attempting a download. The beauty of this is you'll have your system completely updated, and RHN will know about the changes. At any other time in the future, you can either bring home another CD with more packages, or run up2date and pull the packages down from RHN depending on how many packages there and how big they get. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
