On 2 Apr, Pablo Manalastas wrote:
>
>> Meron bang nakakaalam saan pwedeng makakuha nang RH-compliant na rpms for
>> the latest 2.4.x kernel? I want to compile my own 2.4.x kernel so yung
>> source, devel, at headers rpm lang siguro ang kailangan ko. For some reason
>> or other, RH still sticks to the 2.2.x tree even though stable na ang 2.4
>> (I'm still using RH6.2's 2.2.16 kernel at this point).
>
> kernel 2.4.X requires too many changes to other stuff that you should
> not just get the kernel rpms but a host of other rpms as well.
> For example, if you want devfs you must get devfsd and edit rc.sysinit
> to mount /devfs, and then edit out /dev/pts in /etc/fstab. If you want
> posix shared memory, you must edit /etc/fstab to mount /dev/shm.
> If you want 32bit uids, you probably need to write a new version of
> useradd (is useradd 32bit aware?).
>
> It's just too much bother to put all these small things together.
> I think you can get Suse 7.1(?) or AdmuLinux 2.0 (when it comes out)
> or one of those new distros which ship with 2.4.X.
>
Not really. Well, if you wanted to take FULL ADVANTAGE of ALL the new
features the 2.4.x series has to offer you'd require a complete
overhaul of the system. But in my case, the only reason why I use
2.4.2 at all is because of its USB support (the backports to 2.2.x
don't support any of the devices I own). The only mods I made to red
hat 7 to get it working were to get the USB tools (for diagnostics),
and the hotplugging scripts. These were not even absolutely necessary.
The only extra package that was really needed was a new version of
modutils, because 2.4.x uses a completely different directory structure
for /lib/modules/2.4.x/*.
The 2.4.x series already has a lot to offer even if you do minimal
system updates. My approach has been to do this incrementally: get the
tools you need as you need them, when you feel ready to experiment with
them.
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