The kernel packages are in the RPMS folder, not in the Updates one, so you have
to download the package(s) you need, then install/update with rpm or kpackage.
Ernie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999,Dux Gregis wrote:
| I did this and updated a lot of things, but I didn't see a way to
| update the kernel. I have mandrake 6.0 which I don't think comes with
| the latest kernel version and none of the mirrors on the list had
| anything that looked like a kernel update package. so how do you
| update the kernel?
|
| >
| > As for item number 5, if you can get online in Mandrake, then use
| the Mandrake
| > Update tool in KDE (it may be available in Gnome, but I don't use
| that desktop).
| > You must first connect to the Internet, then click the program icon,
| and follow
| > the prompts. Mandrake Update makes it easy to update the version on
| your system
| > ( with fixes etc.). It will download the packages you select, and
| install them
| > as well. I recomend doing the updates one at a time, I've heard
| people having
| > problems doing multiples.
| >
| > If you can not get online in Mandrake, then do the download from
| your other OS,
| > and put the packages in a known folder (like c:\downloade\linux or
| something),
| > then restart the 'puter and boot Linux. Mount the partition
| containing the
| > files you downloaded, and run rpm something like this in a console
| window or
| > session:
| >
| > rpm -Uvh <path to file>
| >
| > where the path to the file will be (assuming you used /Win as the
| mount point
| > for DOS drive C:, and the files are located in C:\downloads\linux):
| >
| > /Win/downloads/linux/<packagename>
| >
| > You can go to http://www.linux-mandrake.com and folow the links to
| an ftp
| > mirror site near you for the downloads. When you log onto the
| mirror, select
| > the folder for your version, then the updates folder to get fix
| packages.
| >
| > HTH,
| >
| > Ernie
| >
| >
| > /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,conv=auto 0 0
| >
| >
