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| Michael Hart 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| I just downloaded the latest stable kernel from kernel.org. The version
number is 2.4.20. How do I know what subversion it is?
Has anyone had any trouble booting the system after compiling and installing
the latest 2.4.20 kernel?
Are there any gotchas I should watch out for?
Michael Hart
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| Alexander Dalloz 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| Michael Hart <mixstat-donotspam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> I just downloaded the latest stable kernel from kernel.org. The version
> number is 2.4.20. How do I know what subversion it is?
The vanilla kernel has no subversions. Redhat uses subversions to
discriminate the different patched kernel versions based on the same
kernel source.
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> Has anyone had any trouble booting the system after compiling and installing
> the latest 2.4.20 kernel?
Do you mean anything special?
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> Are there any gotchas I should watch out for?
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> Michael Hart
Alexander
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| Michael Hart 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| "Alexander Dalloz" <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
news:bc8ae1$gp2fc$1@ID-2108.news.dfncis.de...quote:
> Michael Hart <mixstat-donotspam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> The vanilla kernel has no subversions. Redhat uses subversions to
> discriminate the different patched kernel versions based on the same
> kernel source.
OK. I guess RedHat would patch the kernel for two reasons. One would be
enhanced features and the second would be security releases. Is this
correct?
If so what are the "enhanced features" in the kernel source for the latest
RedHat patch? and are they int he source at kernel.org?
Also does the "vanilla kernel" have up to date security patches in the
source tree?
If the RedHat kernel is better than the vanilla one where can I get the
latest RedHat kernel source for 2.4.20?
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> Do you mean anything special?
Well I was hoping it would boot. Which it does - so I'm lucky. It doesn't
seem to run my NAT script anymore. The netfilter part of the config seems
to be changed significantly from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20 so I cannot just copy my
old .config file and use it. I don't know what modules I should configure
to run normal NAT forwarding for a small network.
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> Alexander
Michael
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| Michael Hart 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| "Alexander Dalloz" <alexander.dalloz@uni-bielefeld.de> wrote in message
news:bc8oul$g1f42$1@ID-2108.news.dfncis.de...quote:
> Michael Hart <mixstat-donotspam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
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> If there are not any special needs - like additional features like IPsec
> - I recommend to use the latest Redhat up2date kernel.
I run up2date to keep most of the other packages up to date but deselect the
kernal and a few other things I have modified.
Michael
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> Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany
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| J.O. Aho 2004-01-23, 7:26 pm |
| Michael Hart wrote:
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> I do not know if redhat have put it back in the 2.4.20 kernel or if the
> redhat version of that kernel will compile on a redhat 7.3 machine. I have
> just stayed with the stock kernels because I do not know what drivers I may
> want that redhat do not have in the kernel. I do want to run pptp and it is
> for this reason I am changing the kernel version as I can't seem to find
> working kernel patches for NAT for pptp for kernel 2.4.19
You could always copy the missing source from the kernl.org kernel-source to
the redhat kernel-source. This should work as long as you don't use Redhat9
kernel, which needs that drivers are patched for the threading system from
kernel 2.5.
//Aho
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