Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO <ruben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > 
> > And I'm not talking about 2.4.3, I'm talking about 2.4.2 and
> > modutils-2.4.2-14.  Everything the Brooklyn CEO seems to sum up my
> > frustrations.  Using SuSE recommended updates with the recommended methods
> > are my problem if they don't work?  It's broken and no one at SuSE appears
> > to be in slighest bit interested in giving me any sort of advice - they
> > appear to be more interested in find ways to have me go away and drop the
> > issue.
> 
> That is a different issue. The support you get for the price of the box
> is *INSTALLATION* support. Not upgrade support.
> 
> And there is nothing wrong in wanting help, but how are we supposed to
> offer custom support for every single customer taken into consideratin
> what you pay for the box?


There should be no issue with a kernel upgrade unless the distro is negligent
in it's design.....

make xconfig
make deps
make clean
make bzlilo
make install

The RPM's for the init upgrades and modprobe upgrades and the like
should  just work - regardless of the 2.4 kernel version.



Ruben