On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > My record with recompiling the kernel is only about 30% success, so I > > don't want to go down that route unless I absolutely have to. I've run > > up2date on the kernel on other systems with success (this is a generic > > HP NetServer LD Pro, nothing special at all - no software RAID, etc), so > > any opinions (asbestos flame suit - purist will say do a recompile, > > uggghh)? > > My recommendation is to use up2date to update the kernel - you don't > need to recompile. Just make sure everything else is up to date first, > especially up2date. Once you've got an updated kernel, you're off to > the races. Do *not* delete the current kernel - you'll need it if for > some reason the latest kernel doesn't work for you.
Rather than using up2date (he may not have the right version of up2date to actually use it for kernel updates, still running 7.0), he'd be better off downloading it, manually, and then running rpm -i to add it to the available kernels, first. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
