kernel

[Kenneth]

You didn't say what distro you have, which would make a lot of difference. 
If it's an older one, and wasn't designed with the intent to support 2.6
kernels, you might have to upgrade other packages before dropping in 2.6.

I find it easier to download the whole kernel source.  If you get a patch,
you have to know what you're patching, and if you have never run the patch
command it can take a few tries to get it right.  Of course, it's a learning
experience, so it isn't all bad if you have the time :)

I usually prefer using a "vanilla" kernel, with source straight from
kernel.org, but at some time in the past, on I believe it was a Fedora
distro, the package management tools whined about a non-standard kernel and
warned that things might not work properly.  Instead of worrying about it, I
switched to an "official" kernel for that instance.

What sorts of things didn't work?  The only kernel-related problems I've had
personally was just lack of support for something I wanted to do.


--- Mike <bmike101 at cox.net> wrote:

> New adventure: upgrade kernel. The new os I put on here wasn't good (things
> 
> didn't work) so I thought that maybe I should just do this.
> 
> Right now I'm running a 2.4 series kernel. If I were to upgrade to a 2.6
> would 
> I experience any problems (like things not working). Alternately, if I were
> 
> to upgrade to the latest 2.4 kernel (32) what would I need to do (in 
> preperation I d/l the 2.4.32 kernel and it turned out to be a patch
> <54KB>)? 
> Should I just install the patch or would I have a problem?
> I also d/l a 2.6 kernel (2.6.15.4) and it was MUCH larger (4991kb).
> 
> Awaiting your valued assistance!
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