On Friday 19 December 2003 23:37, Ghod wrote: > >>hope it never crashes.. since you would > >>never be able to install ANYTHING back on it. > > > >If you're referring to me, the laptop has been running Linux for 2 years. > >It does "crash" or "hang" occasionally -- > OR.. your not doing an UPGRADE.. but rebuilding a kernel. an upgrade > (using the menus) does NOT give you that option to keep existing > instanaces of linux and most newb's will make that mistake. (1) If you upgrade (which I did from RH-9) old kernels _are_ kept, and grub.conf is updated to include the new kernel. Therefore you _do_ have the option of running old kernels. [As an illustration, the Fedora kernel did not run on my SCSI-only desktop, but I was able to boot from an old kernel.] (2) You are using a deprecated boot-loader, LILO, so you are not in a position to say what happens if you follow the official advice to use grub. (3) You said "I hope your system doesn't crash", and I pointed out that it does occasionally hang, without any disastrous effect. > I'm not questioning YOUR ability to work with linux.. this WAS a newb > question and I gave newb advice. It was bad advice. I suggest that in future you are not so quick to give dogmatic advice. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
