According to Jayatheerthan Venkatramanan: While burning my CPU.
>
> hi,
> i have got RH5.0. i have partitioned my HDD to win95(FAT32) and RH5.0. i
> was told to upgrade the kernel to 2.x before mounting pure win95
> partition. will anyone give me details how to upgrade the kernel. i have
> got the new kernel in cd.
I belive Redhat-5.0 comes with kernel 2.0.32 which would not be of much use
when mounting a win95/98 partition because of the joliet and vfat systems.
Kernels 2.0.35 and 2.0.36 are more suited, possably .34 i cant remember.
Anyway, there are several ways of upgrading kernels and kernel sources.
You could install the "full" kernel source from you CD, or get
linux-2.0.36.tar.gz all 7269221 bytes, and do the following.
cd /usr/src
rm linux
mkdir linux-2.0.36
ln -s linux-2.0.36 linux
tar xzf linux-2.0.36.tar.gz
The above removes the symbolic link to the old linux directory, creates a nw
directory called linux-2.0.36 and creates a new symbolic link between the
two.
This keeps the old source in the old dir for futcher referance.
Now just;
cd linux
make mrproper
make config
make dep clean zImage
make modules modules_install (if needed).
Now read /usr/src/linux/README (near the bottom of the file) the part about
coping the new image and installing it with lilo.
If you have a file called vmlinuz-2.0.xx on the cd then possably that is a
ready made kernel image, you could just copy that file to /boot, you WILL
need to copy all the modules as well for that image from the CD to
/lib/modules/$version to allow the image to be used, as it WILL be a modular
kernel.
You can use 'rpm' to install rpm files from a Redhat cd to you drive.
Which ever way you decide to do it, you must make a new entry in
/etc/lilo.conf for the new image and rerun lilo.
If you need more spesific help or advise contact me personaly, as there are
more ways than the above to do what you want.
>
> Thanx,
> jay
>
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