Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-10 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 22:37 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > OK, that makes sense. It also reminds me of my first Linux system, > installed the week after I bought a new PC and had plenty of room to > play with multiple boot partitions. I went right to redhat.com and > downloaded the latest insta

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 20:58 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Since updating Glibc is usually not > recommended, this means the original headers used on the system > during the initial system build (when Glibc was built) should > never be touched. OK, that makes sense. It also reminds me of my first

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: > The headers used to compile Glibc is what should stay on the > system for the duration of the life of that build (providing > Glibc isn't updated). Since updating Glibc is usually not > recommended, this means the original headers used on the system > during the initial sys

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Randy McMurchy
Peter B. Steiger wrote these words on 06/09/05 18:09 CST: > It seems to me since the headers came from the kernel, That's just it, the headers *don't* come from the kernel any longer (there is a user-space kernel-headers package now), however, that isn't the main reason. > that if you install a

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Peter B. Steiger
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:28 -0500, Dan McGhee wrote: > Thanks Hugo, Mike Hernandez and Ken Moffat. I'm responding to only one > of these messages to save bandwidth. You all gave me the same "gotcha" > about which I had no clue: Keep the old headers until I rebuild, the > system dies or I die.

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Dan McGhee
Hugo Bernier wrote: On 6/9/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to shift from 2.6.8.1, which was the initial LFS build to the current SVN 2.6.11.10. In addition to the actual kernel and the libc-headers, are there any "gotchas" to be aware of or any additional things that I need

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Hugo Bernier
On 6/9/05, Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to shift from 2.6.8.1, which was the initial LFS build to the > current SVN 2.6.11.10. In addition to the actual kernel and the > libc-headers, are there any "gotchas" to be aware of or any additional > things that I need to do? I keep the

Re: Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Dan McGhee wrote: > I want to shift from 2.6.8.1, which was the initial LFS build to the > current SVN 2.6.11.10. In addition to the actual kernel and the > libc-headers, are there any "gotchas" to be aware of or any additional > things that I need to do? > > Thanks, > > Dan >

Updating Kernel

2005-06-09 Thread Dan McGhee
I want to shift from 2.6.8.1, which was the initial LFS build to the current SVN 2.6.11.10. In addition to the actual kernel and the libc-headers, are there any "gotchas" to be aware of or any additional things that I need to do? Thanks, Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/bl