On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 20:05, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 04.01.2004 schrieb Sturla Holm Hansen um 15:43: > > Hi all, my motherboard has a built in hpt374-raid controller, and I have > > two disks running raid0. > > I haven't been able to custom-compile a kernel to get this to work, so I > > have downloaded a custom-kernel (2.4.20-8) from highpoint-tech.com to be > > able to use the raid-controller. (This is not the point of this message, > > but if anyone could point out how you do it....) > > They don't have a kernel for Fedora yet or, more important, > > pre-install-scripts for Fedora, but I wanted to upgrade anyhow. > > I changed the sources-list for apt-get to point to a Fedora-tree and run > > apt-get upgrade. > > After removing some packages to get the upgrade to run and reinstalling > > them later I had all packages (except the kernel of course) upgraded to > > FC1-versions. > > So now, as far as I can see, I'm running FC1 with my old kernel. > > Works great actually, but here's my question: > > Is there a big downside to this that I haven't spotted yet? > > (Besides me running an older kernel that is) > > > > Sturla > > > > Ps. The download was 810MB...I don't wanna be on dialup anymore!!! > > If you are running kernel 2.4.20-8, which seems to be the initial > release kernel by Redhat 9, you may face many problems which were fixed > by several bugfix kernel for Redhat 9. The most serious issue is a local > root exploit to be able on your system. Even if you have no other users > on your system, if anyone can get on your system by an exploit getting > unpriviledged user rights he can then easily become root. > > Alexander > Yeah, I know about the security-downsides of not having an up-to-date kernel, but I'm behind a firewall and on dialup, so that doesn't really scare me much.. What i was wondering was more if this is an acceptable way of upgrading the box, say if I first upgraded in this way and then custom-compiled a kernel, would I then have a full-flegded FC1 install or would I miss something vs. a new install? Sturla
