I would say that as long as you have a good boot disk and/or have a copy of the
old kernel on the hard disk that you should go ahead and crank yourself a new
kernel.
I was also a little intimidated my first couple tries. After all I thought to
myself, I don't want to have to re-install the whole dang operating system if I
can' boot anymore ! The "toughest" part of the whole thing was running
configure to set up what options you want rolled in to the kernel. And, is it
better to make it part of the kernel itself or make it a loadable module?
Practice makes perfect. Or, in my case, competent I think.
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> There's been lots of discussion here about kernel upgrades, and it seems
> to be a pretty daunting task to me, as a relatively new linux user but a
> pretty confident and competent computer user in general.
>
> My case is that I'm running Mandrake 6.0 and would like to upgrade the
> kernel to get rid of some of those mount/unmount errors that have been
> described here already. Is the best upgrade for me the one at cooker
> (kernel-2.2.11-2mdk.src.rpm), as opposed to the multitude of files I find
> at kernel.org? Is it preferable for me to stick to a Mandrake release of
> any given kernel?
>
> I guess what I'm looking for is a slightly more hands-on howto (I have
> read the kernel howtos, and what keeps me from simply following the
> directions is that, knowing how crucial the kernel is, I just don't want
> to botch it), and at this point, there seem to be an awful lot of starting
> places (cooker, kernel.org, the new cassini test, and so on). Those of you
> who are familiar with this, can you offer a little guidance? I don't need
> hand-holding so much as just an indication that if I, for example, start
> with the cooker kernel, I'll be on the right track.
>
> Thanks much-
> - alan
>
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