RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?

[Michael Peppard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:24 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?
> 
> Because my company relies on a proprietary piece of software 
> that requires oracle 9, and oracle 9 is only support on rh es 
> 2.1 from our vendor.  but since this server will soon be our 
> primary server, the tape drive autoloader will be on it, and 
> I need large file support for samba so I can transfers the 
> backups from the other servers to this one to write to the 
> tape.  I was able to get all of the rpms I needed updated, I 
> foudn what I needed on rpmfind.net.  But kernel 2.6 still 
> won't compile :(
> 
> William Hooper wrote:
> 
> >Adam Williams said:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an 
> enterprise 
> >>mail list,
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
> >
> >  
> >
> >>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and 
> could help.  I 
> >>have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file 
> size for 
> >>samba file support.
> >>    
> >>
> >[snip]
> >  
> >
> >> any suggestions?
> >>Thanks!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try 
> either FC1 
> >or one of the FC2 test releases?
> >
> >Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3.  Not sure 
> if it will 
> >fix the issue or not.

ES 2.1 is a redhat product that's using a specialized 2.4.9 kernel.
Some of Mr. Cox's additions to kernel 2.6 are already in it,
particularly if you've used your subscription to fix vunerabilities.
ES 3 has even more of 2.6 in it. You will have some serious problems
finding **RPM's** that let you change your kernel to "2.6" given that
this shuts off your support from Redhat and Redhat themselves haven't
finished upgrading to kernel 2.6.

Short answer:
Upgrade to Fedora core 1
su - root
cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup
cat > /etc/redhat-release << EOF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
EOF

You now have ES version 3... Sort of.  Oracle won't know any different.

Shorter answer:
Buy ES 3