Re: Kernel Upgrade

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Prasanna Venkatesh P. wrote:

pvenky> Hi all:
pvenky> 	We are running RH 5.2 on our Departmental Computer Facility
pvenky> server on which quite a few machines are dependant. We plan to upgrade the
pvenky> kernel and a few other things to the RH 6 release. I tried doing this at
pvenky> home but could not. Can you please give me proper guidance and
pvenky> PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES to be taken when I do this? The work may be done
pvenky> overnight when nothing else is going on.

I doubt whether the RH 6 release is stable enough.
Several people have reported problems.

pvenky> 
pvenky> 	Also, I had posted a mail about vmware. Actually, we will be
pvenky> running it on Win NT and the vm will run on linux. Anybody's tried this?
pvenky> If so, please give me your opinion.
pvenky> 
pvenky> Thanks.
pvenky> 
pvenky> Prasanna.
pvenky> root@civil
pvenky> 
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