How to find later kernel rpm

[nitin.gizare at wipro.com]

HI


Thanks for info
I am not that fluent in with kernel compilation.


Rgds
Nitin

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-sysadmin-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Barry Brimer
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 7:41 PM
To: redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: How to find later kernel rpm

> Dear friend nitin,
>                          Download kernel for this location http://www.kernel.org/ and compile it.

I would recommend against downloading a kernel from kernel.org and 
compiling it yourself because you will be unable to get support from Red 
Hat for anything related to your kernel.  Also, Red Hat adds a lot of 
things into their kernel that have specific purposes .. and of course the 
fact that their kernels are running on thousands of machines .. and if 
there are problems, other people may have found them already .. if you 
compile your own kernel you are the only one using it .. no one else has 
tested it.  This is not to say that the kernel.org kernel is unstable, it 
certainly is is not, but there may be features in RHEL that are configured 
differently than a vanilla kernel.org kernel.  If however you think you 
know as much about kernel compilation as the folks at Red Hat *and* you 
have a very specific need, then go ahead and compile your own kernel, and 
support it yourself.

"up2date -u kernel" will get you the latest release kernel for RHEL 4 .. 
although if you want to stick to a particular update, you will need to 
find what the kernel version was that went with the next version above 
what you want, and move back one kernel.  I would recommend just running 
"up2date -u kernel" or "up2date -u kernel-smp" depending if you have the 
smp kernel or not.

Barry