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    SubjectRe: Upgrading to a test kernel
    If you get any responses on this could you plz forward them to me plz? 
    I have been working with this problem for a while. Thanks!!

    -Shaun Dunston
    dunston@netins.net



    Michael J. McGillick wrote:
    >
    > 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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