Re: debian 2.2r3 ?

[Eric Richardson <milagro@milagrosoft.com>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Rick Commo wrote:
> > Ethan,
> >
> > As someone who is still a newbie in a lot of the "Debian ways", I am
> > curious.  How is 2.2r3 different than doing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade
> > on 2.2r2?
> 
> thats exactly what you do.  r3 just merges security fixes from
> security.debian.org into the real mainline dist.  it also adds a
> couple fixed packages for severe bugs.
> 
> upgrading from r0 or r1 or r2 to r3 is as simple as:
> 
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19

If I do the last step, will my current kernel be left in place and be
bootable if I have problems with the upgrade?

Thanks,
Eric