Hi, I like Centos as a basic platform, but I always then upgrade the kernel to the latest stable release from kernel.org
The latest ones are using Centos 4.4 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.18 For simplicity, I always start with the .config from the original Centos kernel. My install sequence is: Untar the kernel source in /usr/src/kernels ln -s /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.18 /usr/src/linux (changing 2.6.18 to the version in use...) cd to /usr/src/linux & do 'make mrproper' to clean out any leftover garbage. Older kernel versions often would not build if you missed this step, so I do it by habit now. Copy the .config file from the last installed Centos kernel directory (under /usr/src/kernels/2.6.xxxx) to /usr/src/linux Still in /usr/src/linux, do 'make oldconfig' and just press enter all the way through. This should give you a new kernel config matching the Centos distribution. (If you need anything other than the standard Centos kernel config, make changes here) Then do:- make make modules make modules_install make install If everything builds OK, reboot and get ready to select the new kernel as the Grub menu appears. If it all boots OK, you can edit /etc/grub.conf and change the default line to 0 so the new kernel is booted in future. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Bryan J. Smith > Sent: 14 October 2006 10:48 > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com; asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Centos kernel 34 vs. 42? > > From: Remco Barendse > > Possibly, but I would have to start worrying about kernel configs, > > compiling the lot and solving the problem of the box no > longer being > > able to boot the kernel :) > > You'd be better off starting with a Fedora kernel. > Unfortunately RHEL/CentOS 4 is based on Fedora Core 3 which > has been tagged legacy for quite some time now. The last > kernel version was around 2.6.13 or so IIRC. And trying to > go with a Fedora Core 5, 6 Test or Development (aka Rawhide) > might not build because GCC has been upgraded to 4.0/4.1 from 3.4. > > > I looked for CentOS repo's but cannot find one that will > throw a plain > > vanilla kernel my way. > > And you're not likely to find one. RHEL/CentOS is based on a > set kernel version with minimal changes, backporting required > fixes/security updates only as necessary. Red Hat's focus > with RHEL is 7 years of SLAs with no ABI changes, period - > unlike Fedora Core (or Red Hat Linux before it for that > matter - which did co-exist with RHEL for 2 years before the > trademark change). > > > There's only a centos plus kernel but these are basically > the same as > > the original kernels just with some filesystems enabled. > > As I hinted above, the changes are just significant enough > that Red Hat only backports, to the anal power when it comes > to RHEL. And although Fedora Core/Development would be a > "good start" for an updated kernel (far vanilla where > countless things would break), there is so much that has > changed in the toolchain and user-space of Fedora Core 4-6 > that offers a 2.6.16+ release that many people probably > haven't bothered. Especially since most people run > RHEL/CentOS for its longevity and unchanging ABI/backports > approach to an almost anal-level. > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users