[NTLUG:Discuss] SuSE 10.3 and kernel upgrades

Gilbert Morrow gkfmorrow at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 10:57:04 CDT 2008


Can't you just DL the kernel and do manual install leaving old kernel ?

Install using rpm -ivh instead of rpm -Uvh. This will leave the previous
kernel installed. You can also re-install an older kernel version this way.


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net
> wrote:

> One thing which is concerning me about SuSE 10.3 is that, when it does a
> kernel upgrade, it doesn't retain the previous version in case something
> goes wrong and you need to drop back one revision.  I admit, I've never
> had a problem, but I prefer to have a backout plan other than restore
> from backup...
>
> Any one know of a way to configure the update/upgrade process to do this?
>
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