I'm not sure it will be THAT big a deal. Most of the upgrades to
software are required specifically for things like e2fs utils, etc ->
things that require access to the kernel syscalls. I remember running
redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.4pre1 (back in the day), and there was very
little I needed to do to get it running for a full system.

Give it a try.
If not, I think there's still patches for usermode linux on kernel
2.2.x... then you can have a virtual 2.2.x kernel to play with.

Cheers,
Liam

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 13:21, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Thanks Sam.
> 
> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
> > As long as you have gcc 2.95.3+ (IIRC - check the kernel README) then 
> > you shouldn't have a problem.  You can run distros with different libc's 
> > inside your vservers happily.
> > 
> > The RH6.1 machine will need plenty of updates before it can work with a 
> > 2.4 kernel.  Again, it's all in the kernel documentation.  
> > Documentation/Changes within the source tree lists the exact package 
> > requirements.
> 
> I was afraid of this.
> 
> > You could always put a new OS on the root system, and run the old RedHat 
> > system inside a vserver :-)
> 
> Love to but the upgrade will break too many tweaked things and I don't 
> have the time to babysit the fixes.  This is for a non-profit -- gratis 
> -- and I have a full time job already.  Keeps looking like a lose/lose 
> situation.  (Maybe I need thicker skin.  :-)
> 
> 
> Rod

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