Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:22:39 -0500 (EST) | From | "Adam D. Bradley" <> | Subject | Re: Kernel Upgrade |
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Simon Ekstrand wrote: > Ok, let me see if ive understood this right, > I run Linux 1.2.1 (slakware), yes, i know its old.. > If i wanna upgrade to, say for example 2.1.5, im gonna need gcc 2.7.0 > or newer. > Now gcc 2.7.0 is if ive understood this right some sort of elf > binarie that, my old linux version cant run.. > How am i gonna upgrade to a newer kernel if my old kernel > cant handle the gcc version needed for the upgrade??
If you've got the space, you can get GCC and build it as an a.out binary; problem is, as of 2.1.0 the kernel's only supposed to compile as ELF, which means you would be trapped in the 2.0 series.
Last I checked Slackware recommends you don't bother trying to update a non-ELF-install to an ELF-install, just get a recent distribution instead (Slackware 3.1 or so) and re-install the whole thing. Pain in the @ss if you've got a lot of local-installed software and user files, but a lot less risky than the library-and-loader transplants needed to do the upgrade. There used to be a README on it somewhere; I tried it and wound up having to do a start-from-scratch.
Hope this helps...
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