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

[Timothy Murphy]

Adam Williams wrote:

> 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? 

As a matter of interest, does linux-2.6.3 require libc.so.6 ?

I know you get dependency errors with 2.6.* kernels
if module-init-tools is not installed.
Could that be the cause of the error in this case?

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