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

Adam Williams awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us
Mon Mar 1 22:44:56 UTC 2004


Sorry, doesn't work that way.  Oracle has very specific glibc 
dependancies that it requires to install.  and our vender's proprietary 
product also has very unforgiving gcc and glibc requirements for their 
code to compile.  i'll keep trying.  thanks fo rthe help though.

Michael Peppard wrote:

>>-----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 :(
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>>William Hooper wrote:
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>>>Adam Williams said:
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>>>>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an 
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>>enterprise 
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>>>>mail list,
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>>>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
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>>>>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and 
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>>could help.  I 
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>>>>have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file 
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>>size for 
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>>>>samba file support.
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>>>>any suggestions?
>>>>Thanks!
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>>>Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try 
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>>either FC1 
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>>>or one of the FC2 test releases?
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>>>Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3.  Not sure 
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>>if it will 
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>>>fix the issue or not.
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>
>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
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>You now have ES version 3... Sort of.  Oracle won't know any different.
>
>Shorter answer:
>Buy ES 3
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