Hi All..... Well I did compile the 2.6.0-test11 and well sorry to say it did boot...but...Well as he said it is still in the test phase and...the ipchains problems are there during bootup comes up with questions like "ipchains who?" and QM_MODULE something so well u have to let me know when u get it fixed....hey by the way is fedore that gr8.....thanks....george..... --- Rob Love <rml@ximian.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 20:49, Ken Shirriff wrote: > > > 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. > > I could be wrong, but I think everything is backward > compatible. > > One counterexample is module-init-tools, but it > installs in a way such > that it falls back to the old versions. I have been > going between 2.4 > and 2.5 for years now. > > A more safe suggestion is to install Fedora. They > are moving it over to > 2.6, and it works with both kernels. > > Rob Love > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
