I think I can stumble my way through upgrading my standard 6.3 Pentium kernel 2.2.13. But I have a few questions: 1) Does the SuSE kernel have special SuSE stuff in it or is it just a standard kernel built as SuSE thought would be a good general purpose kernel? 2) I'm looking to upgrade the kernel because of http://www.sendmail.org/sendmail.8.10.1.LINUX-SECURITY.txt. But how do I decide which kernel to download? Get the latest available, or just the one that fixes the bug? 3) If I'm just upgrading for a bug fix, should I just use `make oldconfig'? Or does it make sense to go through from the start and only select the hardware I'm using? 4) And if I do use `make oldconfig' it looks like with 6.3 I must get the config off the cdrom (that is, I can't use `make cloneconfig'). Is that correct? 5) I have a P133 and PIII 550. Any reason I can't build the kernel on one and use it on the other machine? Thanks, Bill Moseley mailto:moseley@hank.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Hello Bill, on Sunday, July 02, 2000 at 15:05:50 -0700, you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:
I think I can stumble my way through upgrading my standard 6.3 Pentium kernel 2.2.13. But I have a few questions:
1) Does the SuSE kernel have special SuSE stuff in it or is it just a standard kernel built as SuSE thought would be a good general purpose kernel?
The SuSE kernel is a standard kernel on wich the SuSE team has applied some patches like Reiserfs, LVM, and many others. They have also modularized the kernel a lot.
5) I have a P133 and PIII 550. Any reason I can't build the kernel on one and use it on the other machine?
If you want to use the same compiled kernel for both computers, you'd better
have to compile it for pentium (i586).
Regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet
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