Thanks Do you know of any good DOCs on the subject? B Liviu Damian wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:49, Brendan McNally wrote:

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Can you please tell me is it possible to upgrade from Kernel v 2.4 to 2.6without having to upgrade the entire OS?

Yes it's possible. You can grab the source and recompile it, or you can grab a src.rpm and rebuild it for your system.

Cheers,

On Thursday 19 January 2006 13:07, Pascal Bleser wrote:

To be able to use a 2.6 kernel, the system needs specific minimum versions of userspace tools (such as modprobe, insmod, ...) as well as a GNU libc version that is capable of interfacing with that kernel.

You have to very carefully check the requirements of kernel 2.6 I supposed he will take care about those dependencies :-) Brendan what SUSE version are you running?

PS: Pascal I think you have a problem with the time: "Message was signed on 1970-01-01 01:59 with unknown key 0x58857177." Cheers, -- Liviu Damian Mobile phone: +40 741 226993 URL: http://liviudm.blogspot.com

On 01/19/2006 01:28 PM Ken Schneider wrote:

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:20 +0200, Liviu Damian wrote:

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PS: Pascal I think you have a problem with the time: "Message was signed on 1970-01-01 01:59 with unknown key 0x58857177."

I saw -no- such problems in Pascal's message.

UNTRUSTED Good signature from Pascal Bleser Key ID: 0x58857177 / Signed on: 01/19/2006 12:07 PM Key fingerprint: E02F 0C4A CE1A 27C3 D082 C8EE AF73 4C5A 5885 7177 OJ -- `Three Dementor attacks in a week, and all Romilda Vane does is ask me if it's true you've got a Hippogriff tattooed across your chest? [...] `I told her it's a hungarian Horntail,`said Ginny, turning a page of her newspaper idly.`Much more Macho? (Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter 6)

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:46 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:

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Johannes Kastl wrote:

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On 01/19/2006 01:28 PM Ken Schneider wrote:

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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:20 +0200, Liviu Damian wrote:

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PS: Pascal I think you have a problem with the time: "Message was signed on 1970-01-01 01:59 with unknown key 0x58857177." I saw -no- such problems in Pascal's message.

UNTRUSTED Good signature from Pascal Bleser Key ID: 0x58857177 / Signed on: 01/19/2006 12:07 PM Key fingerprint: E02F 0C4A CE1A 27C3 D082 C8EE AF73 4C5A 5885 7177

"Untrusted" ? Not trusting me ? ;D Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Damien, seems the issue is on your side of things.

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Ah, the signature, yes it is showing as "Invalid signature" in evolution as well. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liviu Damian wrote:

On Thursday 19 January 2006 13:07, Pascal Bleser wrote:

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To be able to use a 2.6 kernel, the system needs specific minimum versions of userspace tools (such as modprobe, insmod, ...) as well as a GNU libc version that is capable of interfacing with that kernel.

You have to very carefully check the requirements of kernel 2.6 I supposed he will take care about those dependencies :-) Brendan what SUSE version are you running?

Well, since Brendan is asking for pointers/docs to recompile a kernel from source, I assume he's not an expert on that topic. Brendan, the easiest path is to upgrade the whole distribution. As Carl-Daniel wrote, I'd also suggest to upgrade to 10.0. Upgrading an old SUSE version to 10.0 sure isn't an easy task, but IMHO easier then trying to fix your current system by installing core and kernel stuff manually (from source), etc... A nightmare that should really be left for experts (and experts tell you to better upgrade your distribution ;))

PS: Pascal I think you have a problem with the time: "Message was signed on 1970-01-01 01:59 with unknown key 0x58857177."

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Pascal Bleser schrieb:

Brendan McNally wrote:

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Can you please tell me is it possible to upgrade from Kernel v 2.4 to 2.6without having to upgrade the entire OS?

No, usually it's not.

To be able to use a 2.6 kernel, the system needs specific minimum versions of userspace tools (such as modprobe, insmod, ...) as well as a GNU libc version that is capable of interfacing with that kernel.

You have to very carefully check the requirements of kernel 2.6

SUSE Linux 9.0 is able to work with at least older 2.6.x kernels, at least it worked for me back then. However, I would only try 2.6.x kernels up to the one found in SUSE 9.3 (and use the corresponding udev). That should work. As an alternative, you could try with udev from recent 10.1 snapshots with kernels from the same snapshot, but no guarantees for that. Either way, you should upgrade because even SUSE Linux 9.0 (the last one with kernel 2.4) is no longer supported with security updates. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Nov/0004.html I suggest you hop straight onto 10.0 right now to have a secure system. If you want, you can still change to 10.1 once it is out. SUSE Linux releases older than 10.0 are not recommended because they have a really different hotplugging architecture and they boot much slower than the current release. If the machine you're talking about is a server, you'd better run SLES on it to get a MUCH longer support period (and with SLES 9 you have a 2.6 kernel, so that would sort of solve your problem). Generally, an untested upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 is nothing I'd do on any machine I depend on. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/