Up2date and Arjan's 2.6 test kernel

EmbraceThePenguin jgiles at joeman1.com
Mon Nov 17 22:28:17 UTC 2003


Why dont you just download the rpm files from the web site and rpm -ihv
the kernel. Problem solved...

I usually just get the source and compule myself on RH9. But they have
ready made kernels there too

Make sure you update all the other packages there as well too..

Joe

> If I just "up2date kernel" it says I already have the up-to-date version
> of the kernel (thinking that 2.4.22 is the up-to-date version).
>
> It's got me beat - i think I will just give up trying to test it out.
>
> -dan
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, M A Young wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Dan Goodes wrote:
>>
>> > I've been running fedora (FC1) since it was released, and test 3
>> before
>> > that, and am happy with it.
>> >
>> > I want to try arjan's test kernels from
>> >
>> > http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.5/
>> >
>> > I read through some threads on the mailing list, and it seemed the
>> best
>> > solution would be to just use up2date (since the config is already
>> there).
>> >
>> > So I uncommented that line from the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file,
>> and
>> > ran "up2date kernel-unsupported" (not 100% true - it took a LOT of
>> reading
>> > to find that I had to run "up2date --nosig kernel-unsupported").
>>
>> kernel-unsupported is a collection of unsupported modules, not the
>> kernel
>> itself. You probably want up2date kernel.
>>
>> 	Michael Young
>>
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