Kernel 2.4.21

Richard L. Proctor plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:30:04 -0700


On Tuesday 17 June 2003 6:25 pm, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 16:22, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 17. Jun, 2003 schw=C3=A4tzte Voltage Spike so:
> > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> > > > When installing debian now keeps the last two kernels available (
> > > > maybe the RPM packagers could learn something from this! ) as Linux
> > > > and LinuxOLD.
> > >
> > > Just a little off-topic, but I seem to remember Mandrake Linux
> > > supporting this feature at least a year ago.
> >
> > Good. Red Hat and SuSE uninstall the current kernel, so if the new kern=
el
> > doesn't work you have an unbootable system.
>
> ----
> dunno about SuSE
>
> RedHat most assuredly doesn't 'uninstall' any kernels - that bungling is
> left entirely to the user.

SuSE keeps the previous kernel configuration as well.  I have no don't know=
=20
where they get these ideas.


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Richard L. Proctor
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