Re: 2.4.0 is finally out

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Lee Helpingstine said:
> If you guys go to upgrade to 2.4, don't forget that with a major release
> you also have to upgrade several other packages.  Last I knew you had to
> swipe them from unstable versions of the dists too.  util-linux, modutils,
> and binutils to name a few.  Building util-linux from src scared me so I
> did a dist-upgrade for 2.4.0-prewhatever on my server here.

AFAIK, people using Red Hat have it pretty easy.  You should be able
to drop a 2.4 kernel on RH7 without any trouble.  All you really need
to upgrade for 6.2 is modutils (IIRC), which you can get from

    ftp://ftp.silug.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/

(There are rpms there too, BTW.)

I've got one box running (essentially) Red Hat 6.0 upgraded to
2.4.0-prerelease.  It wasn't very painful.  Just read
Documentation/Changes as usual.

Steve
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