The old 2.4 RPMs will definitely screw up some things on an RHEL system
since they depended on a lot of things backported from 2.6. Though I've
not tried it on RHEL4, my guess is a stock (or web100-patched) 2.6 kernel
will work fine unless you have some exotic hardware.
Since most Red Hat kernels I've seen have been heavily patched, I'd
recommend trying to run a kernel.org kernel built from source first.
-John
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Sean Scott wrote:
> I am trying to move the web100 tools to another server that is RHEL4 and am
> encountering some difficulties. On a previous RHEL3 system using 2.4 I had
> used the prebuilt rpm; however, some things did not operate as expected (KDE
> worked but Gnome wouldn't start) although the overall system was stable.
> The current stable web100 tester is not Red Hat and the kernel was built
> from kernel.org source. Has anyone tried to patch RHEL 4 with a 2.6.9
> kernel using their source? Is there a patch built against 2.6.9 that may
> install with less effort?
>
> RHEL4 System:
> uname -a
> Linux ns-netdiag 2.6.9-5.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Feb 14 10:03:50 EST 2005 i686
> i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> While trying to patch the kernel source it states that these files cannot be
> found? I know the patch was made for 2.6.10 but .....
>
> fs/proc/root.c
> net/ipv4/sysctl_net_ipv4.c
> net/ipv4/tcp.c
> net/ipv4/tcp_input.c
> net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
> net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c
> net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
> net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c
> net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
>
> Not knowing what RedHat has modified I would prefer to modify their kernel
> but can start from fresh source if this would be prohibitively difficult.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
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