On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 07:40, Steve Kaufman wrote: > I am a very newbie to Linux and this whole different world. I installed 9.2 > a week or so ago and finally figured out how to get all the updates. I'm > using the GUI by the way. The process was successful and now if I check > there are no more updates so I think things went OK. > > Two questions: > > 1) How do I check to see what fixes have been installed? > > 2) When updates are installed is there another step necessary to build a new > Kernel or does that happen automagically or do I not understand the process? > (which is quite likely) > > The reason for this second question is I have a concern,that was also > mentioned in another post, about booting from a kew kernel and not being > able to fall back to the working one should something happen. > mandrake will just add the kernel to the list if you download and install it via urpmi... do a google for easy urpmi and update the urpmi sources.. then type urpmi kernel it should bring up a newer kernel for you to install. then do the same thing typing urpmi kernel-source then when all done you can reboot and the new kernel will boot ... there is a list at lilo boot .. your old kernel will be at the bottom of the lit and probably say 2210 or something likethat .. an updated kernel is 2.4.22.21 i think so look for something arround that number.
-- jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ++++++++++++++++++ "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"-Tupac ++++++++++++++++++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZ registered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 Linux Machine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6 http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N
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