Re: Proposal: make kernel install easier
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:46, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2003 10:51:54 -0400, Adam C Powell IV said:
> >
> > Greetings, Installing a new kernel package can be a bit of a pain,
> > especially for newbies, what with hand-editing lilo.conf or config
>
> Why on earth are you hand editing the lilo.conf file for every kernel
> image?
Well, if they move from an installation kernel to a kernel-image
package, they have to add an entry for an initrd file. After that, if
they upgrade to another kernel-image package and want to be able to use
both the new and the old they need to edit the old entry for an initrd
too.
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Jamin W. Collins
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