> make modules_install maybe. I'm not sure how clever make install is.

Yes.  I always forget those sorts of details!

> No, this isn't a problem. Each kernel you install stores it's modules in
> /lib/modules/2.x.y, x.y being the specific kernel version. Unless you
> install/recompile the same version of the kernel a number of times, the
> old modules will stay untouched.

Great.

> > Also, RH 7.2 uses GRUB and it refers to an initrd file that has a kernel
> > version number in it.  How do I make an equivalent for my new kernel ...
> > or can I safely use the one that the 2.4.7 kernel is using?
>
> Have a look at man mkinitrd, but you may not need to use one at all.

Thanks. I'll check that out.  It's just that the grub.conf mentions it, so I 
figured I could need to have one.

> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html

Thanks!

By the way, George Vieira gave me a couple of pointers.  It turns out I 
already have iptables installed.  The problem was that the firewall script 
was looking explicitly for "v1.2" when RH 7.2 has version 1.2.3, so a quick 
mod to their script to sed out anything after "v1.2" should keep me going for 
a few minor version changes :-).

I do still have some issues because some of the lines of the script are 
generating errors saying something like "TOS not supported", so I have to 
track that down, but George has suggested to upgrade to whatever the lates 
iptables is, so I might just try that before worrying about it too much.

Cheers,

Harry O.


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