From: Fergal Daly (fergal at domain esatclear.ie)
Date: Fri 14 Sep 2001 - 18:56:08 IST
Unless this is software uses kernel system calls directly, you probably only
need to find a version of libc or glibc that it's happy it with. Changing
the kernel would only be necessary for something like a device driver /
controller,
Fergal
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:37:03PM +0100, Oliver Ryan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have redhat linux 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-5.0 (gcc is egcs-2.91.66) on
> a machine and want to install an older kernel version 2.0.30 (in order
> to run really old software that won't compile on the new kernel but is
> known to work on the old one - the kernel was out on redhat 4.2 I
> think). It wouldn't compile so I tried to install an earlier
> gcc-2.7.2.1 (thinking the 2.91.66 was at fault, and it's a compiler
> which works with the old software) but that wouldn't compile either..any
> known problems here?
>
> Does anyone know where I can get a download/isoimage of redhat4.2 with
> the kernel 2.0.30 and gcc 2.7.2.1?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ollie.
>
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