HOWTO - How To Update Your System

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KateOS has its own tool for updating your system - updateos!

Before using updateos, have a look at the manpage by entering man updateos on a shell.

Having read the manpage, you are now ready to update your system. As root enter updateos -ud, which means that updateos will fetch all new packages that are available and install them on your system. Depending on the speed of your internet connection, this may take a while, especially when it is run for the first time.

After the system is upgraded, be sure to rewrite the bootloader, becuause most likely a new kernel has been installed (if you ran updateos for the first time this is definetly the case).

Simply run Lilo by entering lilo as root, if it reports no errors you are now ready to restart your system, which should be done by entering reboot as root.

If you forgot to reload lilo, you must boot from the KateOS CD. Run it in rescue mode by entering rescue root=/dev/hdxy (x is the number of your harddisk and y the number of your partition, if you only have one harddrive with one partion this will be hda1) then run lilo.

Finally, you can now log in and enjoy your updated version of KateOS.