RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?

[Adam Williams]

We use a proprietary piece of software called Exlibris Aleph (library 
cataloging software) and it uses Oracle 9 for its database.  
Unfortunately, Exlibris tells us they only support RH ES 2.1 because 
thats what Oracle supports, and what Exlibris's code will compile 
against.  We originally tried RH9 and even after extensive modification 
of their code, they couldn't get it all to compile correctly.  Our 
server with the large RAID array is this server, and the only server we 
have with a large enough RAID array to temporrarilly hold the backups 
while they are written to tape.


dsavage at peaknet.net wrote:

>On Monday March 1, 2004 Adam Williams <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
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>>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an enterprise
>>mail list, and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and could
>>help.  I have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file
>>size for samba file support.  I recompiled from redhat 9 source rpms the
>> required things, except binutils, procps, and modutils won't compile
>>with rpmbuild --rebuild, they all error out.  So I thought maybe I could
>> just download the RH9 binary rpms and install them, but it errors
>>saying  failed dependancies, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) required.  RedHat ES
>>2.1 comes  with glibc 2.2.4, so I'm looking for some suggestions how to
>>upgrade  these 3 packages so I can upgrade to kernel 2.6.  any
>>suggestions?  Thanks!
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>Adam,
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>Is there any particular reason why you cannot upgrade to RHEL/ES v3.0?
>It's not as advanced as Fedora Core, but the difference isn't nearly so
>large as with RHEL/ES v2.1. You'd still have to recompile stuff, but maybe
>not as much.
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>--Doc Savage
>  Fairview Heights, IL
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