Hey all,
Here's my situation: I have RedHat 5.1 (2.0.35) running on a PII with
96 MB RAM on a 4G HD. I would like to upgrade my kernel to the latest
2.2.10 version, so I DL'ed the tar.gz file and untarred it into the
/usr/src directory. While reading the Documentation/Changes files, it
mentions all these different libraries, programs and daemons that I need
to have minimum versions of. While checking my system, I think I need
to install/upgrade libc5, so I get that tar and untar it from the root
directory. It puts it into the /usr/i486-linux-libc/lib directory. I
thought that was okay, until I tried to upgrade my modutils package and
the configure script could not find the libc.so.5 library. Should I be
putting these files into a specific directory? If so, where? The
READMEs don't seem to tell me very clearly, and I am a *real* newbie.
I have also DL'ed the kde package, but do not know how to make it my
default window manager under X. Every time I try to execute kdm, it
logs me in through the kde login interface, but then it throws me into
fvwm (RedHat's default manager). Any clues??
I've been thinking of going ahead and buying RH6.0, but I feel that
doing it this way will help me learn the OS that much better.
Thanks for your time in reading all this.
Mike
