(forw) Re: [ILUG] Compiling new kernel

[les davis]

Sorry Rick, I just hit reply with out thinking.
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Subject: (forw) Re: [ILUG] Compiling new kernel


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> From: les davis <scratchandsniffmedia at eircom.net>
> To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:25:11 +0100
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> What distro would you suggest? Its for AMD 64 3500+, 1GB RAM.
> I have been using FC3 64bit but it is far too buggy, Mandrake 10.0 64 bit
> but mandrake is always asking me for money.
> All I want is a machine that I can web serve, file + print serve(including
> MP3s) and use for all internet needs and if pos use as part of a cluster. 
> I
> have a cover disk with centOS on it that I could try.
> I'm very into the linux ethos and I'm studying computers but I losing 
> faith.
> Please help me see the light again,
> Les
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> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> To: <ilug at linux.ie>
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Compiling new kernel
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>>Quoting les davis (scratchandsniffmedia at eircom.net):
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>>>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:02:51 +0100
>>
>>A fine year for cabernet sauvignon.  It's aging well.
>>
>>>I have installed redhat 9 on my machine....
>>
>>Well, that's a problem, for starters.  That release was end-of-lifed on
>>2004-04-30:  Unless you've been doing something frightfully clever,
>>you've received no security updates since then.  You should _run_ out to
>>borrow a set of discs for CentOS 4.1, a really good freely
>>redistributable rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 1.
>>
>>>and I want to update the kernel as I need it for some media apps.
>>
>>Again, you honestly shouldn't.  You need to change your entire
>>distribution to something that, unlike RH9, isn't _unmaintained_ and a
>>security nightmare.
>>
>>>I have followed
>>>http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html#CONFIGURATION-2-6
>>>to the letter but when I get to config stage it says to go to $cd
>>>linux but it just says that directory does not exist ...
>>
>>Probably, the directory ./linux _doesn't exist_.  When you untar your
>>2.6.x kernel tree, you should note where it unpacks _to_:  With old kernel
>>releases, you would always get everything unpacked within a top-level
>>directory tree of "linux"; more recently it would be linux-n.n.nn, where
>>n.n.nn is the kernel version number.
>>
>>You might be well advised to have some of the ILUG lads assist,
>>in-person, during your first kernel compile.  It's not difficult once
>>you've gotten the hang of things, but can be intimidating, the first
>>time.
>>
>>>Also I want to bring up to the latest kernel 2.6.13, it is currently
>>>2.4.20-8, do I have to do it in stages e.g. update it to 2.4.31 first
>>>then 2.6.x or can I just update it strait to 2.6.x?
>>
>>Well, that's a reasonable concern:  The 2.4 and 2.6 kernel families are
>>rather different, and you need, at minimum, to pay a great deal of
>>attention to what it says in the kernel README about required
>>dependencies that you might _also_ need to upgrade (and upgrade first).
>>
>>But really, don't try to upgrade RH9:  Replace it with something less
>>ancient.
>>
>>-- 
>>Cheers,        "Linux means never having to delete your love mail."
>>Rick Moen                                              -- Don Marti
>>rick at linuxmafia.com
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