On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 04:24:39PM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote:
> the following TWO non obvious files exist in my /boot folder. Can someone
> shed a little light on them for me?
>
>
> ONE:
>
> kernel.h -> kernel.h-2.4.3
> kernel.h-2.4.3
>
> these were introduced at the 2.4.3 update it was not supplied on the distro's
> cd at 2.4.2
That's not true, at least not here. I have their 2.4.2 twins installed
on a box here. They are part of the kernel-headers package:
$ rpm -qf /boot/kernel.h-2.4.2
kernel-headers-2.4.2
> The contents should be self explanatory, but, I can find no script that does
> this, and I don't know what the contents would be subsequently used for
I'm guessing the files, or, rather, their contents, are used by Red
Hat-specific tools, perhaps by the RHN utilities (up2date, etc.).
> vmlinuX->
> vmlinuZ->
>
> vmlinuz is a modularised, non- multi processing kernel. ( I hate the word
> SMP, too confusing). Both are approx the same size, and apart from booting
> the damn thing, what would vmlinuX be?
Beats heck out of me. I'm only using Fuscia Fedora to finish a couple
of projects, then I'm off to Slackware.
K
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