Re: Is there a howto for 2.6.x on RHEL 3?

["Tom G. Christensen" <tgc statsbiblioteket dk>]

Brent M. Clements wrote:
> Yeah that looks like what we'll have to do too..install RHEL 4 beta
>
> 2.6.x just doesn't compile nicely on RHEL 3
Build it on FC2 or FC3 instead.

I just built a static kernel image with no module support and I've been 
running it on my RHEL3 WS almost since I got it.
No upgrades of utitlies etc. have been necessary.

Sofar I've used 2.6.3 and 2.6.8-rc2.
Both give much improved performance compared to the standard RHEL3 kernels 
and stability has been great.

-tgc

> -Brent
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Jeremy Hallum wrote:
>
>
> > Someone tried it out this way.  I have only anecdotal evidence that it
> > didn't work very well 'out of the box' (he mentioned something about a
> > segfault in libc).  But I don't know if he tried anything to remedy the
> > segfault, as his backup plan was RHEL 4 beta, and that seemed to work for
> > him for now.
> >
> > 					-jeremy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Brent M. Clements wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I was just curious, has anyone been nice enough to put together a short
> > > list of steps required to get 2.6.x working under RHEL 3 including
> > > required versions of various pieces of software?
> > >
> > > If none aren known, I'll probably write one up when I start trying to get
> > > it to work this weekend.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brent