Re: upgrade from rh5.2 to 6.1

From: Matthew Hiller (matthew.hiller@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 23:14:51 EST


Hi,

        Conveniently enough, Red Hat has instructions on making limited
updates to a 5.2 installation in order to make it kernel-2.2 ready:

http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-2.2/kernel2.2-upgrade.html

        And I'd recommend compiling the kernel yourself rather than
rpm'ing it.

Regards,
Matt Hiller

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Ron Nath wrote:

> Ive been trying to avoid this for various reasons but now that I need to
> run Oracle 8i on my server, I need the latest 2.2.x kernel. My question
> is whether anyone has done this and what has been their experience?
> Specifically, I want to know if binary compatibility remains? I have a
> lot of rpm's (for rh5.2) and other packages that I downloaded and
> installed in the past year and really dont want to recompile them all.
> Basically, I have the system working just the way I want, and I need to
> know if I have to start from scratch if Im going to do this upgrade just
> so I can run Oracle 8i.
>
> --
> Ron Nath
> Center for Medical Informatics
> Yale University
>



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