On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:06:39PM +0100, sammer yadev wrote: > hi > > i am using linux from 15 monts i want to test 2.5/2.6 > beta kernel 2.5.70 after downloading zip file how do i > installed/upgrade it to my system .Is redhat 8 and 9 > make any diffrace to kernel upgrade > First of all, you must install the latest modutils and mkinitrd rpms from ftp.redhat.com/pub/linux/rawhide to be able to boot both the older 2.4 kernels as well as the newer 2.5 development kernel. Next, you have to compile the 2.5 kernel for your system. Download the 2.5 source tarball from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/ and install it. The latest is 2.5.70 as of this writing but I expect Linus will be releasing the next iteration any time. Now comes the big part: you have to compile the 2.5 kernel for your system. What follows is just a basic overview. For more details, check out any of the kernel compilings How-tos on the web. Change to the top level directory of the kernel source you installed and issue the command: make xconfig This assumes you are running X. Xconfig is siymlinked to the new kconfig which comes with kernel 2.5. It is pretty sweet giving you a tree view of all the kernel options. Go through all the options and choose the ones that best fit your system. Then hit the save button. This saves your choices as a .config file in the toplevel kernel source directory. To compile the kernel, issue the following command in a terminal window: make bzImage modules modules_install install For old time kernel hackers, having not to do a make dep as the first step will take a lot of unlearning of muscle memory :)) After your kernel is compiled, reboot and select the new kernel from the GRUB menu then watch the magic happen. Good luck! -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
