Win4Lin (ask if the next yum kernel update would need to be seperately patched????)

[Gar Nelson]

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Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
| It would appear that on May 2, Bill Diamond did say:
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|>If you're running Fedora 1 with the 2.4 kernel, you have a pretty good
|>shot at installing Win4Lin which will automatically build a new kernel
|>with the kernel features needed to run Win4Lin.  If you're running a 2.6
|>kernel, you'll need to go through the process of downloading the kernel
|>patch, applying it to the kernel source code, building the kernel and
|>installing it.  Most of this process is pretty well automated, so it's
|>not as bad as it sounds.
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| Pardon me for jumping in Bill, but would you happen to know if one of
| these options would result in a kernel that yum would be able to keep up
| to date for me like it does now???? or would the next yum kernel update
| be missing  "features" required for win4lin????

I'm not a trusting soul. I am running FC1 and Win4lin, and couldn't
really do my job without either using a windows machine, or running win4lin.

In my /etc/yum.conf I have added "exclude=kernel*" under the [main] block.

Yum will no longer update kernels, which I didn't trust it to do by
itself anyway, but will update everything else.

Gar
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