I believe you are correct in that it is installed in the default kernel
supplied by Red Hat. I have sinced recompiled the kernel with options
that I want and one of them wasn't the NFS stuff. I will recompile
tonight and add it back in. Thanks for the heads up.
- Mike
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Michael.
>
> >>>> Looking for some help from the Red Hat users on this list (or
> >>>> knowledgable others). I've tried a couple of times before to
> >>>> upgrade my existing RH 5.0 system to one of the test kernels, but
> >>>> I usually end up screwing up one thing or another. I have read the
> >>>> documentation, and I've tried to upgrade almost of the packages
> >>>> necessary as listed by the minimum version numbers in the
> >>>> documentation.
>
> >>>> If anyone is currently running RH 5.0, and has successfully gotten
> >>>> to the point of running a test kernel, I would like to discuss the
> >>>> steps that you took to get to that point.
>
> >> In my case, here's the procedure I used to update to the latest of
> >> everything...I use the RedHat mirror on SunSite.doc.ic.ac.uk but the
> >> following should also work with RedHat's own site...
>
> >> Q> #!/bin/bash
> >> Q> mkdir /redhat
> >> Q> mount -t nfs -o ro,soft,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 \
> >> Q> 193.63.255.4:/public/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/ /redhat
> >> Q> cd /redhat/pub/redhat/current/updates/i386
> >> Q> for Z in *.i386.rpm ; do
> >> Q> X=`echo $Z | sed 's/-[0-9]*\./ /' | cut -d ' ' -f 1`
> >> Q> Y=`rpm -q $X 2> /dev/null`
> >> Q> if [ "$Y" != '' ]; then
> >> Q> if [ $Y.i386.rpm != $Z ]; then
> >> Q> echo "Updating $Y.i386.rpm to $Z" >&2
> >> Q> rpm -Uvh $Z
> >> Q> fi
> >> Q> fi
> >> Q> done
> >> Q> cd /
> >> Q> umount /redhat
> >> Q> rmdir /redhat
>
> >> The result of the above sequence is that ALL of your currently
> >> installed RedHat-supplied RPM's are updated to the latest versions,
> >> thus reducing the problems caused by old versions...
>
> > I'm gonna ask a dumb question here, but this script assumes that I
> > have NFS support either built-in or as a module, correct?
>
> Yes, it does - but as far as I'm aware, ALL of the kernel binaries
> supplied with the various distributions have NFS support compiled in
> so that their customers can do an NFS install. Certainly both RedHat
> and Slackware include suchlike support. As a result, that shouldn't be
> a problem...
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
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