RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?
dsavage at peaknet.net
dsavage at peaknet.net
Mon Mar 1 22:53:09 UTC 2004
On Monday March 1, 2004 Adam Williams <awilliam at mdah.state.ms.us> wrote:
> Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an enterprise
> mail 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. I recompiled from redhat 9 source rpms the
> required things, except binutils, procps, and modutils won't compile
> with rpmbuild --rebuild, they all error out. So I thought maybe I could
> just download the RH9 binary rpms and install them, but it errors
> saying failed dependancies, libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) required. RedHat ES
> 2.1 comes with glibc 2.2.4, so I'm looking for some suggestions how to
> upgrade these 3 packages so I can upgrade to kernel 2.6. any
> suggestions? Thanks!
Adam,
Is there any particular reason why you cannot upgrade to RHEL/ES v3.0?
It's not as advanced as Fedora Core, but the difference isn't nearly so
large as with RHEL/ES v2.1. You'd still have to recompile stuff, but maybe
not as much.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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