On Mar 10, 2004 at 22:46, Timothy Murphy in a soothing rage wrote: >ne... wrote: > >>>I'm running 2.6.3 under Fedora-1, >>>and didn't find any need for "a lot of misc fixups". >>>I just compiled the vanilla kernel. >>>(I've never understood why this is not standard. >>>I don't particularly want to use someone else's choice of modules.) >... >>>Admittedly I had to compile module-init-tools, >>>but as far as I could see there isn't a Fedora RPM for this anyway. >> FC does not need this. All you need is the modutils from Arjanv >> repository (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/). > >I regard the distribution -- Fedora 1 or 2 -- >and the kernel as more or less orthogonal. >I'm surprised this point of view is apparently so rare, >at least on this mailing list. I meant FC1. I left out the one. [...] >As far as I could see, one has to install module-init-tools >if one wants to compile and install a 2.6.* kernel. >(I don't claim to be a kernel expert, >and could easily be mistaken about this.) Maybe I did not make myself clear. The modutils from the Arjanv repository works with both 2.4.* and 2.6.* kernels. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 I don't do it for the money. -- Donald Trump, Art of the Deal 12:25:29 up 98 days, 17:12, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
