Re: requirements for installing a 2.6.0-test kernel....
Romano Giannetti (romano@dea.icai.upco.es)
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:53:38 +0200
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:17:07PM +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
> Sure - I'm trying it on Mandrake 9.1
>
> I've already had fun with the module_init_tools from
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
>
> Basically after doing the ./configure --prefix=/ && make moveold, I was left
> with a bunch of dangling symlinks in /sbin
>
> I've since grabed the src.rpm from here:
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/SRPMS/
> and that seems to be behaving a bit more (although I haven't rebooted yet :)
>
> Everything else is from a standard Mandrake 9.1 install, so I'm using gcc
> 3.2.2 and associated gubbins.
>
I'm also interested (I have a mdk 9.1 installed, too), so please keep us
informed. I would like to test 2.6, but I have to do real work too, so I
need the ability to switch back safely to a 2.4 kernel... so if you succeed,
please share! Thanks a lot!
Romano
--
Romano Giannetti - Univ. Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)
Electronic Engineer - phone +34 915 422 800 ext 2416 fax +34 915 596 569
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/