On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Bhasker Joshi wrote: > Good Linux day everyone, > I have a situation here. > Could anyone tell me how to upgrade to kernel 2.4.17 > with these givens... > > - The RH-7.2 box has kernel-2.4.7-10 on ext3 fs > - I wanna upgrade to 2.4.17 with (or without) ext3 > [Am Fed up with 2.4.7 crashing]
well you can't upgrade the stock RH kernel unless you get one of the newer packaged kernels from RH. If you want to go for the latest 2.4.17, you will have to download the kernel source. You have two choices, either download the entire 2.4.17 source from one of the kernel mirrors or get the PCQ cd where they have given 2.4.1 source, download all the patches from 2.4.2 to 2.4.17 and patch the kernel. Though downloading 16 patches may not be _that_ different from downloading the 2.4.17 kernel :-). YMMV. The usual procedure to compile the kernel will apply. Remember you *cannot* patch the source of the 2.4.7-10 that you have. > - All is fine except e2fsprogs. here version 1.25 for > RedHat-7.2 (with ext3 support) doesn't seem to be > available. I don't get what you mean, you say you have 2.4.7-10 w/ ext3 support so whatever version of e2fsprog and util-linux that you have _should_ be okay. Though if you want the latest versions, why not get he source and compile ? Google is your friend here. Also google for *ext3 for 2.4* and I think the first link you get should solve all your problems. > Should i revert to ext2? > - how? I am trying to avoid a hard disk format you don't need a disk format for ext2 to ext3 conversion _or_ vice versa. In fact you don't even need to umount the partition. > If I can continue with ext3 how to get around the e2fsprogs > problem. As I said, get the source and compile. > Also I was not able to find an rpm for e2fsprogs 1.25 for > RedHat 7.2 on redHat.com. I got e2fsprogs-1.25-1.i386.rpm >ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ > is it Ok to use this? yes this should work. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Mumbai, India. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
