Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 May 1998 02:44:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Michael J. McGillick" <> | Subject | Upgrading to a test kernel |
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Hello:
Looking for some help from the Red Hat users on this list (or knowledgable others). I've tried a couple of times before to upgrade my existing RH 5.0 system to one of the test kernels, but I usually end up screwing up one thing or another. I have read the documentation, and I've tried to upgrade almost of the packages necessary as listed by the minimum version numbers in the documentation.
If anyone is currently running RH 5.0, and has successfully gotten to the point of running a test kernel, I would like to discuss the steps that you took to get to that point. I would like to keep the system as RPM'ized as possible by upgrading packages with RPMs, but I realize that some packages may not be currently available like this. According to my system, here is what I have installed as opposed to what the documentation is saying that I have:
Package I Have Required ------- ------ --------
-> Kernel modules modutils-2.1.55-4 modutils-2.1.85 Gnu C gcc-2.7.2.3-8 2.7.2.3 Binutils binutils-2.8.1.0.1-1 2.8.1.0.23 -> Linux C Library libc-5.3.12-25 5.4.44 Dynamic Linker (ld.so) ld.so-1.9.5-5 1.9.5 Linux C++ Library libg++-2.7.2.8-6 2.7.2.8 Procps procps-1.2.7-1 1.2.7 -> Procinfo procinfo-0.11-1 13 -> Mount mount-2.7f-1 2.7l -> Net-tools net-tools-1.33-4 1.45 -> Loadlin not installed 1.6a Sh-utils sh-utils-1.16-8 1.16 Autofs 0.3.14 0.3.11 -> NFS not installed 0.4.21 Bash bash-1.14.7-6 1.14.7 -> Ncpfs ncpfs-2.0.11-3 2.2.0 -> Pcmcia-cs pcmcia-cs-2.9.12-4 3.0.1 -> PPP ppp-2.3.3-2 2.3.5
All of the packages with arrows next to them look like they need to have newer versions installed. If I install the newer version, will it not allow my existing 2.0.34 kernel to work properly? Is there a way to have both kernels working on the system, without having to repartition the drive? Also, I've heard folks talking about gcc, pgcc and egcs. I'm assuming that these are all C compilers, but what's up with them? I thought gcc was the compiler that we currently use. Is there a movement underway to switch to a new standard C compiler for Linux?
Any help would really be appreciated.
- Mike
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