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kernel upgrade question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Shaw)
Fri Nov 8 15:00:31 1996
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:32:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Ryan Shaw <rshaw@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
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greetings.
last night i downloaded the latest kernel source archive off of sunsite
(linux-2.0.24.tar.gz). i then used rpm to uninstall the current
kernel-source package and the kernel-header package. i then unpacked the
new kernel source in the /usr/src/ directory, compiled, and everything
went just fine.
however, when i was uninstalling the kernel-header package i had to force
it to uninstall as a library depended on it.
now, as a newbie to the linux world i have no idea as to whether or not
i've just screwed up or not. things look normal so far however.
am i wrong in assuming that everything is ok? from what i understand the
kernel-headers package is for those that do not want to install the
entire source tree but is there as other things depend on it. will the
things that depend on the headers be able to find my new headers in my
new kernel source or do they depend on 2.0.18?
also, i'd like to add that by default (after a clean install of RedHat
4.0) the command `make zlilo` is somewhat broken. for awhile i couldn't
figure out why i kept booting 2.0.18 even after i had recompiled a 2.0.24
kernel. however, i soon found out that `make zlilo` depends on lilo.conf
booting the kernel from root as opposed to /boot. is there any reason
for booting out of /boot as opposed to the more standard(?) root?
thanks for the bandwidth.
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