This response is not only to this message, but to several messages after it as well.
If you are installing the SuSE RPM from their ftp site then you are not going to need to
install '50 patches' - you are thinking Microsoft, not linux. This post, as well as several
others which I have seen recently, appear to be more attacks rather than requests for
support. A request for support/help is usually more polite and usually avoids insults.
These posts (sorry David, you are not as bad as several others, but you are a little too
negative in your approach) need to realize that this list is a bunch of people who are
willing to help where they can, but they will ignore you and not help you if you are being a
JERK!
Now, the most recent kernels which SuSE posts on their ftp site are stock kernels which
will work with a SuSE configured machine (not in an environment which has been
substantially 'hacked' (bad use of that term here)).
To install one of the kernels you need to perform the steps which I and several other
posters have mentioned.
Please stop the PETTY insults, grow up, and realize that this is the world of open source.
If you like Microsoft, then go pay them $60 per support request and talk with one of their
high school level support representatives. If you like open source, then please be more
considerate in your posts and ask your questions in a more polite manner.
THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS AND DOWN RIGHT CHILDISH NOW!!!
Sorry, venting a little, and tired of people who DEMAND help for free rather than realizing
that I and many others on this list are GRACIOUSLY giving their time for free to help
others (as well as asking for assistance themselves).
Well, I am through ranting, have a good evening everyone.
Jim
01/18/02 04:24:36 PM, David Grove
Are these (this) stock kernels or suse-patched kernels? I don't wanna have to apply 50 patches just to install an rpm.
On Friday 18 January 2002 15:09, James Bliss wrote:
You cannot use YOU to update the kernel because there are more steps necessary which YOU does not handle. You must download the RPM yourself, perform a rpm -Uhv <filename>.
After you perform the upgrade you then need to run mk_initrd and then lilo. Then you get the joy of rebooting (one of the few times you have to reboot in linux as opposed to havnig to reboot almost everytime you do anything in windows).
You should choose 2.4.16 since it is the most recent secure kernel for the 2.4 kernel versions. It includes some bug fixes. There had been an announcement for this some time back. I do not know if it was on this mailing list or on the security mailing list (I do not believe it was on this list).
Jim
01/18/02 03:03:15 PM, "Rafael E. Herrera"
wrote: I have noticed that there are RPM packages for the SuSE kernels in the update directories at the FTP site.
There are packages for version 2.4.10 and 2.4.16 for several SuSE distributions, e.g. 7.3, 7.2, etc.
There is no formal announcement nor any description on what these updates are for. YOU does not show it as an available update.
Are they security updates? Is there a reason I should choose 2.4.10 over 2.4.16? etc.
If someone has seen some description of these packages or announcement, I would appreciated it.
Rafael
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