[ale] Upgrade to 2.4.2 kernel procedures

[Fulton Green]

If you want to chance RH 7.1 beta 2, it installs 2.4.2 by default now.
Alternately, you can install the kernel-*2.4.2-* packages from the Raw Hide
tip. If you do that, you'll definitely need the devfsd and reiser* packages,
and should probably upgrade your binutils and glibc* packages as well. The
kernel documentation (either in the kernel-doc* package or in the source
tarball) has a list of other software mods you'll need (I think in a Changes
file).

If you're absolutely insistent on rolling your own from a 2.2-based machine,
you'll need to grab the devfsd tarball, esp. if you compile in the /dev
filesystem to load by default. And at the risk of opening up old wounds, I
actually use the controversial gcc-2.96.* compiler for the kernel. No
problems, but then again I'm only running on a Pentium MMX. The software
mods in the aforementioned Changes file also apply here.

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 03:32:21PM -0500, Gary MacKay wrote:
> Is there a document somewhere listing the steps to upgrade a 2.2.x kernel
> system to the new 2.4.2 kernel? More specificaly, I have a RedHat 7 system
> running the 2.2.17 kernel and would like to experiment with the new 2.4
> kernel. I know, wait a few days/weeks and I'll be able to install the 7.1
> version straight out. I'm impatient!
> 
> For a system that is not a firewall, (ie. ipchains vs iptables), just a
> web and e-mail server, what packages have to be upgraded besides just
> downloading and compiling the lates 2.4.x kernel?
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