[Gllug] upgrading Kernel from CD

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Fri Mar 26 08:41:41 UTC 2004


And verily, didst John Hearns announce to the hordes:
> 
> On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 14:31, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> > And verily, didst gaurav verma announce to the hordes:
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have installed Win98 & RedHat Linux9 on my PC .Kernel is 2.4 .Now I hav 
> > > got Linux Kernel 2.6.0 in CD but I don't know how to install software from 
> > > CD on Linux .Also I want to know is there any special I have to take while 
> > > upgrading Kernel
> > 
> > >From 2.4 to 2.6, you need to upgrade your modutils package to the newest
> > version (2.6 does modules in a way that 2.4 modutils doesn't like).
> > 
> > Is the 2.6 on cd an rpm or a tar.bz2?
> > just mount the cd, 
> 
> Andrew, may I gently say 'just?' and do a Roger Moore arching of the
> eyebrow.

Well, I did say he'd need to upgrade to the latest modutils before that :)
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