2.5 kernel anyone?

[Gregory Boyce]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 11:05, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Anyone using a 2.5 (beta) kernel?  If so, did you install on top of a 
> standard distribution like RedHat or is that not possible?
> 

I'm currently running 2.5.66-mm1 on top of Gentoo linux, and I've been
running 2.5 since around the 2.5.40 kernel.

Running it on of a recent Redhat should work fine, but you'll need to
either not enable modules, or install module-init-tools.  They're
available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/

One note though, this will replace modprobe, and keeps an old copy as
modprobe.old for the 2.4 kernels.  This ends up causing problems if you
compile a new 2.4 kernel and use initrd since mkinitrd won't grab
modprobe.old.  I believe this is fixed in rawhide.

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Gregory Boyce <gboyce2 at badbelly.com>
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