According to Francisco Neira: While burning my CPU.
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> Hi all,
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> I'm also interested in upgrading my current kernel (2.0.36) to the
> shortly available 2.2.0.
Firstly, i must correct what i wrote in my last mail on this subject.
I said kernel 2.2.0pre9 was the last relased pre kernel before 2.2.0 itself,
i was utterly wrong, i should have said 2.2.0-final.
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> I visited ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/ and when once the
> download was accomplished I saw the file was a "diff" to patch a
> previous kernel.
Normaly any diff file is called a "patch-file" named as patch-2.2.0pre9.gz
for example. The names are agreed upon so not to mislead folks.
A complete kernel source tar archive has the name, linux-2.1.110.tar.gz for
example.
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> I guess there's a site where a kernel binary could be downloaded, am I
> right?
I dont think you could get a binary kernel anywhere, if you could it might
be the worst choise you ever made. You need to make the "kernel" yourself
from the kernel-source-tree which you get from the above URL.
Another thing to think hard about "before" plunging into a 2.2.xx kernel is
what distribution you are using, what liararys you have, is your system to
old???.
For example, i belive that a 2.2.0 kernel could be made and used on a
redhat 5.2 system.
I gave an example of howto find that out in my last mail on this subject.
If you have redhat 4.2 for example, you will not be able to use a 2.2.0
kernel without upgrading many things on that system, ie, libs and the GNU
utils.
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> TIA
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> Francisco
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Regards Richard.
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