installing kernel 2.6.4 on (not over) 2.4

Aaron Matteson fedora at cryptosystem.us
Sun Mar 14 21:06:47 UTC 2004


Michal Zeravik became daring and sent these 0.5K bytes,
> Hi,
> sorry for usual topic, I only need to specify my situation.
> When I try to add Arjan's repository to yum.conf, it wants to install also
> mkinitrd-3.5.15.1-2 and modutils-2.4.26-9.
> Should update these packages when I want to install kernel (not upgrade)?
> I have kernel-2.4.22-1.2174 installed and do want to still use it.
> But I want to give a try 2.6 baby.

Yes, upgrade those packages as well. Yum, will install the new kernel
while leavign the current ones intact. This is standard procedure.

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