-Shaun Dunston
dunston@netins.net
Michael J. McGillick wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> 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. I would like to keep the system as RPM'ized as
> possible by upgrading packages with RPMs, but I realize that some packages
> may not be currently available like this. According to my system, here is
> what I have installed as opposed to what the documentation is saying that
> I have:
>
> Package I Have Required
> ------- ------ --------
>
> -> Kernel modules modutils-2.1.55-4 modutils-2.1.85
> Gnu C gcc-2.7.2.3-8 2.7.2.3
> Binutils binutils-2.8.1.0.1-1 2.8.1.0.23
> -> Linux C Library libc-5.3.12-25 5.4.44
> Dynamic Linker (ld.so) ld.so-1.9.5-5 1.9.5
> Linux C++ Library libg++-2.7.2.8-6 2.7.2.8
> Procps procps-1.2.7-1 1.2.7
> -> Procinfo procinfo-0.11-1 13
> -> Mount mount-2.7f-1 2.7l
> -> Net-tools net-tools-1.33-4 1.45
> -> Loadlin not installed 1.6a
> Sh-utils sh-utils-1.16-8 1.16
> Autofs 0.3.14 0.3.11
> -> NFS not installed 0.4.21
> Bash bash-1.14.7-6 1.14.7
> -> Ncpfs ncpfs-2.0.11-3 2.2.0
> -> Pcmcia-cs pcmcia-cs-2.9.12-4 3.0.1
> -> PPP ppp-2.3.3-2 2.3.5
>
> All of the packages with arrows next to them look like they need to have
> newer versions installed. If I install the newer version, will it not
> allow my existing 2.0.34 kernel to work properly? Is there a way to have
> both kernels working on the system, without having to repartition the
> drive? Also, I've heard folks talking about gcc, pgcc and egcs. I'm
> assuming that these are all C compilers, but what's up with them? I
> thought gcc was the compiler that we currently use. Is there a movement
> underway to switch to a new standard C compiler for Linux?
>
> Any help would really be appreciated.
>
> - Mike
>
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