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Re: Kernel Upgrading!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (DERR)
Thu Nov 7 13:23:31 1996

Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:36:01 -0600
From: DERR <jjdfri@txdirect.net>
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Jeff Myers wrote:
> 
> Please excuse if this is basic stuff.  I just installed
> Redhat  (completely) last week.
> 
> Are their no kernel-upgrade.rpms?
> 
> Since the new rpm is supposed to use dependencies,
> wouldn't this be the "safe" way to avoid this very
> problem?
> 
> Again...humble apologies...newbie at large.
> 

There sure are! Go here:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/old-releases/redhat-3.0.3/i386/updates/2.0-kernel/RPMS/

-DERR
jjdfri@txdirect.net
http://www.txdirect.net/~jjdfri


> >
> >p.s.: If you are using modules with the 2.1.7 kernel then make certain
> >that you have at least the 5.4.9 version of libc.so. (The last time that
> >I checked, 5.4.10 was the current one.) This library is in the 'private'
> >directories on tsx-11.mit.edu and sunsite.unc.edu as they are not
> >"officially" released.
> >
> >If you attempt to use libc.so.5.4.7 with the 2.1.7 kernel then you will
> >find that insmod will fail with some very strange error numbers.
> >
> >This is not a problem with the 2.0 series kernels.
> >
> >>----------
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