Why FC-2?

[ne...]

On Mar 10, 2004 at 22:46, Timothy Murphy in a soothing rage wrote:

>ne... wrote:
>
>>>I'm running 2.6.3 under Fedora-1,
>>>and didn't find any need for "a lot of misc fixups".
>>>I just compiled the vanilla kernel.
>>>(I've never understood why this is not standard.
>>>I don't particularly want to use someone else's choice of modules.)
>...
>>>Admittedly I had to compile module-init-tools,
>>>but as far as I could see there isn't a Fedora RPM for this anyway.
>> FC does not need this. All you need is the modutils from Arjanv
>> repository (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/).
>
>I regard the distribution -- Fedora 1 or 2 --
>and the kernel as more or less orthogonal.
>I'm surprised this point of view is apparently so rare,
>at least on this mailing list.
I meant FC1. I left out the one.

[...]
>As far as I could see, one has to install module-init-tools
>if one wants to compile and install a 2.6.* kernel.
>(I don't claim to be a kernel expert,
>and could easily be mistaken about this.)
Maybe I did not make myself clear. The modutils from
the Arjanv repository works with both 2.4.* and 2.6.*
kernels.


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