> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adam Williams > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:24 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6? > > Because my company relies on a proprietary piece of software > that requires oracle 9, and oracle 9 is only support on rh es > 2.1 from our vendor. but since this server will soon be our > primary server, the tape drive autoloader will be on it, and > I need large file support for samba so I can transfers the > backups from the other servers to this one to write to the > tape. I was able to get all of the rpms I needed updated, I > foudn what I needed on rpmfind.net. But kernel 2.6 still > won't compile :( > > William Hooper wrote: > > >Adam Williams said: > > > > > >>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an > enterprise > >>mail list, > >> > >> > > > >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list > > > > > > > >>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and > could help. I > >>have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file > size for > >>samba file support. > >> > >> > >[snip] > > > > > >> any suggestions? > >>Thanks! > >> > >> > > > >Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try > either FC1 > >or one of the FC2 test releases? > > > >Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3. Not sure > if it will > >fix the issue or not. ES 2.1 is a redhat product that's using a specialized 2.4.9 kernel. Some of Mr. Cox's additions to kernel 2.6 are already in it, particularly if you've used your subscription to fix vunerabilities. ES 3 has even more of 2.6 in it. You will have some serious problems finding **RPM's** that let you change your kernel to "2.6" given that this shuts off your support from Redhat and Redhat themselves haven't finished upgrading to kernel 2.6. Short answer: Upgrade to Fedora core 1 su - root cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup cat > /etc/redhat-release << EOF Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon) EOF You now have ES version 3... Sort of. Oracle won't know any different. Shorter answer: Buy ES 3
