[LON-CAPA-users] RPM update

[Lars Jensen]

Scott,

The reboot went smoothly after the kernel upgrade. I'm now runnink the
2.2.19smp kernel. -All connections even seems to have been established 
after the reboot. 

Shouldn't we also be upgrading the filesystem to ext3 or reiserfs in
order to prevent disasters after a power loss?

Lars. 

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Scott Harrison wrote:

> Dear Dr. Jensen:
> 
> It should work, especially if you read the information that
> I suggested at redhat.com.
> 
> If your system does not boot up, you can always rescue it with
> the original RedHat 6.2 installation CD-ROMs based on instructions
> at:
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.2-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sysadmin-rescue
> 
> If there are any problems with this, perhaps contact me directly at
> harris41@msu.edu when convenient.
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 
> > Dear Scott,
> > 
> > I did your steps below, except that I forgot step 1, and I did step 4
> > with rpm -Fvh instead (am I in trouble??). I think I 
> > have a backup floppy somewhere in my
> > office, though. Everything in /boot looks good, and lilo
> > ran without errors. The 2.2.14 kernel is gone from /boot, so I
> > don't have it as a backup. If things go wrong when I do the re-boot, will 
> > I be able to use the original lon-capa CDROM to boot from?
> > 
> > Lars.
> > 
> > On Thu, 30 May 2002, Scott Harrison wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 1) Make a backup floppy bootdisk:
> > >    mkbootdisk 2.2.14-5.0
> > > 2) Test your floppy bootdisk
> > > 3) Get kernel, kernel-headers, and kernel-smp RPMs
> > > 4) Install with '-ivh', NOT '-Uvh'
> > >    rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.19-6.2.16.i686.rpm
> > >    rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.2.19-6.2.16.i386.rpm
> > >    rpm -ivh kernel-smp-2.2.19-6.2.16.i686.rpm
> > > 5) IMPORTANT!  Since you are using the kernel-smp package, you must
> > >    do this step (which is normally not needed)
> > > 
> > >    /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.19-6.2.16.img 2.2.19-6.2.16
> > >    /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.19-6.2.16smp.img 2.2.19-6.2.16smp
> > > 
> > > 6) Edit lilo.conf.
> > 
> > --
> > Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
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