Also sprach Mike Andrew on Sunday 10 March 2002 18:40: > If you ever want to move away from the somewhat dated rh kernel releases > the 'trick' is to download a pristine kernel, or patch (as appropriate) and > modify the following line in /usr/src/linux/Makefile > > EXTRAVERSION(space)=(space) -1 > > this will give you an RH compatible naming convention (eg vmlinux.2.4.17-1) > and thus allow /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to do it's normal boot up housekeeping.
Thanks, Mike. Until now, I always conservatively kept to the kernels supplied by RH and sometimes recompiled them to suit my needs. Okay, 2.4.20+, here I come (soon)! Klaus _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
