[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Peter]

Thanks for the info. I thought it would be easy but mistakes with the 
kernal seem to be potentially disastrous.

Peter

Karl Lattimer wrote:

>rpm -q kernel 
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>gives you a list of the installed kernels
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>rpm -e kernel-2.x.xx 
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>will remove a specific kernel
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>On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:30 +0000, Peter wrote:
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>>Following the poll for best beginners Linux I tried to install Mandrake 
>>onto my system. It failed because I needed to install a kernal first. 
>>I'm not sure how this is done so I left it for the time being and 
>>reverted to Fedora Core 3.
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>>Having used the Red Hat Network update my system I now find I have three 
>>fc3 kernals in my machine.
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>>I've looked for information on installing and removing kernals but 
>>without success. I suspect it's one of those easy tasks where you don't 
>>realise a beginner needs to be talked through the first attempt.
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>>I did have the idea of running Fedora and Mandrake along with Windows as 
>>a triple boot system but they both seem to need a / root partition.
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>>Happy New Year
>>Peter
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