Re: could compile kernel from kernel.org for fedora?

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Matthew Miller wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:37:21PM +0800, Zhen Zhou wrote:
Thanks a lot. On the other words--if I want to compile new kernel, for
instance, 2.6.17 or newer, the system should be upgrade to fedora
release 5 in the end. That is not a good news for me.
Is there any choices? because I only want to use upgrade the newer
kernel, and taste new function, like pptp-nat, l7-filter and so on.
Any tips? TIA

You can't eat your cake and still have it -- if you want the newest and
latest stuff, you can't have the old version of a distro.

Fedora Core 3 is also only supported by Fedora Legacy for security updates;
you'll be better off with FC5 or newer...



I haven't been following this thread, so this may have already seen this advice ...

I have an FC3 box running kernel 2.6.17.4 (latest from kernel.org). It works fine for me. Just download the kernel (and patches), untar and patch the kernel, edit a .config file, and run "make", "make modules_install", "make install". The only tricky part is getting the .config file right. You can probably copy the Fedora config file as a starting point. I like to remove all the modules that don't apply to my system (makes the compile faster and saves disk space).

Of course, there are lots of things in a distro beyond the kernel. And at some point you'll want to upgrade for new features. But the latest kernel works fine with FC3.

And Matthew Miller is right, "you'll be better off with FC5 or newer".

Regards,

John Wendel

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