OT: Gentoo Q's

peter yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 6 17:17:02 2004


maybe i'll just try upgrading the kernel, since i have this machine up 
and running and stable. i'd definitely have to get it in binary form, 
since i'm fairly sure i don't have enough free space to compile the 
kernel source!

thanks,
peter

On May 6, 2004, at 7:42 AM, Stefan Bruda wrote:

> At 16:31 +1000 on 2004-5-6 Greg Hamilton wrote:
>>
>> A fairly simple way to upgrade to a 2.6 kernel for YDL would be to
>> download the latest YDL 2.6 development kernel in binary or source
>> form.
>
> Before this one also needs to update the following minimal set of
> packages: binutils, util-linux, e2fsprogs, and most importantly
> module-init-tools (some more if one uses ReiserFS, PCMCIA, etc.).
> This is the hardes part, as some packages are hard to find for YDL
> (Fedora PPC RPMs sometimes work sometimes don't, and I am not aware of
> other RPM source for all of these).
>
> Stefan
>
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