[NTLUG:Discuss] Kernel

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 07:37:59 -0600, terry wrote:


> I think they could do it either way, but RedHat's up2date apparently 
> downloads a kernel rpm that installs itself.  I say that from experience 
> because I did it a couple months ago on my cousin's RedHat (8.0) box and 
> after I was done, it left me with a new fully functional kernel and even 
> added the entry in grub's menu.lst for it and all I had to do was change 
> to default to the new one instead of the old one.
> 
> I just tried it on a new RH8 box I have here, (the $199 ThizLinux Fry's 
> special), and it failed twice, (so far), saying that the rpm failed some 
> sort of authentication verification, so I have yet to duplicate the 
> process.  (I'm on dialup here so it's very slow  process.)


you can go to ftp://updates.redhat.com and download the latest rpms from
/current/en/os/i386

once you have the kernel 2.4.18-26 rpm, you can do an 
rpm -Uhv filename any time you want and update your kernel. 

jack