Re: 2.0.36 - 2.2.0 kernel upgrade

[John Summerfield <summer OS2 ami com au>]

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Steve Cohen wrote:

> I have a new Mandrake (equivalent to Redhat 5.2) installation.  I want
> to check out the 2.2 kernel.
> 
> I have downloaded the 2.2 source and headers.  I have read the source
> documentation "Changes" file and checked all the other things against my
> version, downloading updates as needed, all in RPM form.
> 
> Before I actually go to install all this stuff is there any way that I
> could screw myself up by installing later packages such as modutils
> 2.1.121 and libc5 5.4.46?  Or are these things careful to maintain
> backward compatibility?    What I'd like to do is have a separate
> LILO configuration for booting the 2.2 kernel I'll build, but also be
> able to boot the 2.0.36 kernel I'm currently running.  Will loading any
> of these newer utilities get in the way of being able to load the older
> kernel?

I am running 2.2.1 with the latest of evertthing (that needed to be
upgraded) that I could find including: 
[summer possum summer]$ rpm -q modutils
modutils-2.1.121-1

I can also run 2.0.36 without problems though I've not done so for a week
or so. However, bulding 2.2 kernels has become almost a daily occupation
(two yesterday). If you don't need 2.2 I suggest you wait a while.

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Cheers
John Summerfield
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