>
> Hey all,
>
> Here's my situation: I have RedHat 5.1 (2.0.35) running on a PII with
> 96 MB RAM on a 4G HD. I would like to upgrade my kernel to the latest
> 2.2.10 version, so I DL'ed the tar.gz file and untarred it into the
> /usr/src directory. While reading the Documentation/Changes files, it
> mentions all these different libraries, programs and daemons that I need
> to have minimum versions of. While checking my system, I think I need
> to install/upgrade libc5, so I get that tar and untar it from the root
> directory. It puts it into the /usr/i486-linux-libc/lib directory. I
> thought that was okay, until I tried to upgrade my modutils package and
> the configure script could not find the libc.so.5 library. Should I be
> putting these files into a specific directory? If so, where? The
> READMEs don't seem to tell me very clearly, and I am a *real* newbie.
>
> I have also DL'ed the kde package, but do not know how to make it my
> default window manager under X. Every time I try to execute kdm, it
> logs me in through the kde login interface, but then it throws me into
> fvwm (RedHat's default manager). Any clues??
>
> I've been thinking of going ahead and buying RH6.0, but I feel that
> doing it this way will help me learn the OS that much better.
I dont want to sound defeatist, however what you are trying to do is no
trivial task espesaly for a newbie, you can and quite possably will render
you system unusable if you make one little mistake when upgrading libs.
My advice is to backup all you personal files and programs, tar archives
etc, and install redhat-6.0 i can assure you all you need is there after the
initial install.
You say yourself "and I am a *real* newbie" do yourself a favour and get
6.0.
>
> Thanks for your time in reading all this.
>
> Mike
>
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Regards Richard.
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