Hi, Rob. Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks for the kind words, but that was really meant as an >intermediate solution for those who want to play with 2.4 >while there was no distribution yet. It causes various >other problems if you do it like that. There may however >still be some educational or recreational value in it. >The IBM patches to the 2.4 kernel have changed since then. > Well, I did augment your instructions a little bit; I did include the later (newer) IBM patches as well. :-) Your instructions still worked!
>Now that SuSE have a 2.4 distribution you would be better off >with that, even with the beta that is out there to download. >I'm told the 'upgrade' in YaST of the new SuSE distribution >does work, but did not try it myself. What beta to download? I thought the 2.4.x version of SuSE was not available via the Net; am I mistaken? >In some cases it may be easier to install a new system and >copy your data and a few other things. When you switch from >SuSE to RedHat that probably is the only option (especially >when you are using LVM). > That's certainly true; at least in my limited experience. Dave Jones
