Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-04 Thread William L. Maltby
Please, take the time to intersperse your replies. Top-posting makes it harder to follow. On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:39 -0700, Fong Vang wrote: So you're saying that the CentOS 4.x system is married with the 2.6.9 kernel? No. Maybe the packaging of the kernel RPM is different between 4.x and

[CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-3-2008 2:48 PM Fong Vang spake the following: Has anyone tried to install a CentOS 5.x kernel on a CentOS 4.x system? Is this doable? Im aware of the dependencies but I'm curious if anyone has done this successfully. Basically, we have a few hundred 4.x systems that cannot be

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 16:21 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: on 10-3-2008 2:48 PM Fong Vang spake the following: Has anyone tried to install a CentOS 5.x kernel on a CentOS 4.x system? Is this doable? Im aware of the dependencies but I'm curious if anyone has done this successfully.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread Fong Vang
So you're saying that the CentOS 4.x system is married with the 2.6.9 kernel? Maybe the packaging of the kernel RPM is different between 4.x and 5.x, but why would a 5.x kernel not work on a 4.x system, especially considering you can always download the latest kernel from the kernel source tree

Re: [CentOS] Re: Putting CentOS 5.2 kernel on CentOS 4.x

2008-10-03 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Fong Vang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're saying that the CentOS 4.x system is married with the 2.6.9 kernel? Maybe the packaging of the kernel RPM is different between 4.x and 5.x, but why would a 5.x kernel not work on a 4.x system, especially considering