[Klug-general] Distro Wars

Karl Lattimer karl at nncc.info
Fri Jan 14 14:43:27 GMT 2005


They can be, but RPM handles it very well (nowadays) there was a time
when you would get major problems with a kernel rpm install/upgrade and
have to make sure the boot record was working before a reboot, however
now with grub its pretty sensible.



On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:39 +0000, Peter wrote:
> 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 
> >
> >gives you a list of the installed kernels
> >
> >rpm -e kernel-2.x.xx 
> >
> >will remove a specific kernel
> >
> >On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 13:30 +0000, Peter wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Having used the Red Hat Network update my system I now find I have three 
> >>fc3 kernals in my machine.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Happy New Year
> >>Peter
> >>
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