I'm running Red Hat 9 and would like to experiment with the 2.6 kernel. What is the recommended way of setting up my file systems to do this? I can just compile and install the kernel and then reboot my system running 2.6, but I'm not sure that's the best approach. The problem I'm trying to avoid is that 2.6 requires new ipchains, module-init-tools, etc. Installing all these has a risk of messing up Red Hat 9, if anything is not backwards compatible. Would it make sense to boot with a separate / partition to run 2.6? I looked at various FAQs, but couldn't find recommendations on how to partition when using potentially incompatible kernels. Any suggestions on the partitioning? A related question: if I compile and install new module-init-tools for example, should I worry about the RPM database getting confused? (Because a different version will be installed from what RPM thinks is installed.) Thank you for any suggestions, Ken Shirriff -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
