FC1 kernel upgrade w/rpms

[Mikha ben Avraham]

Bart Kalita wrote:

>Is there a definitive HOW TO regarding updating fedora core 1 to Kernel
>2.6??
>
>I've played a little with the idea but in the process managed to lose
>sound and I've lost the track of what was supposed to be added, deleted
>from various folders.
>
>I'm aware that there are at least 3 different descriptions of the
>process on the net, but none of them sounded definitive and to be honest
>none of them worked for me. 
>
>
>
>
>On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 19:18, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
>  
>
>>John A. Smith wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Has anyone out there upgraded FC1 to kernel 2.6.5 from the rpms at 
>>>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ ?
>>>
>>>If so, how did it go? Anything I should know before I try this? Do I 
>>>just run through and install each of the i386/i686 .rpms? C
>>>
>>>Also, can this be done using yum apt or up2date?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>All you need to do is follow the readme.txt available at 
>>http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/ . I've added the following lines to 
>>my yum and apt config (this is what is written in the readme.txt):
>>
>>apt-get
>>-------
>>the kernel rpms are available via apt-get; add the following lines to
>>your /etc/apt/sources.list file :
>>
>># Arjan's 2.6 series kernel repository
>>rpm http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
>>rpm-src http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
>>
>>
>>yum
>>---
>>Those of us with yum can add the following to /etc/yum.conf:
>>                                                                                          
>>[2.6testkernels]
>>name=Test Linux 2.6-test prerelease kernels for RHL9/rawhide
>>baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
>>
>>
>>And then , use yum update or apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade.
>>
>>And that's all.
>>
>>--
>>Pedro Macedo
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>>
I tried using the one at http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml 
, but I can't get it to boot up, always stays on "Freeing unused kernel 
memory".