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Old 04-11-2009, 02:42 PM   #1
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Compiling kernel on Fedora 10 and copying it to another machine with Fedora 5 on it


Is it ok to compile latest kernel on a Fedora 10 machine and then copying the kernel over to a machine with Fedora 5 on it?
 
Old 04-11-2009, 05:33 PM   #2
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Is it ok to compile latest kernel on a Fedora 10 machine and then copying the kernel over to a machine with Fedora 5 on it?
Sure, but I'd be amazed if it worked. There's lots of things the kernel depends on, and that depend on it, and Fedora 5 is ancient.

If you need the latest kernel, it'd be best to upgrade the F5 machine, or compile the new kernel on the F5 box native.
 
Old 04-12-2009, 09:28 AM   #3
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Can someone guide me as to how to compile the kernel in Fedora 10; I am a virgin to Linux and have no idea how to do this. It appears this is what I need to do to install ipswrapper so that I can load a wireless PCI card driver (which does not contain Linux drivers)?
 
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Ok given the situation I will have to continue with Fedora 5 ( because its on a virtual machine) and I want to do kernel modification for it.
1- Is it recommended to do the the kernel compilation on a machine with Fedora 5 on it ?
2- Is there a limitation to the kernel version I should chose?
 
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Can someone guide me as to how to compile the kernel in Fedora 10; I am a virgin to Linux and have no idea how to do this. It appears this is what I need to do to install ipswrapper so that I can load a wireless PCI card driver (which does not contain Linux drivers)?
Start your own thread, don't hijack someone elses.
 
Old 04-12-2009, 11:53 AM   #6
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Ok given the situation I will have to continue with Fedora 5 ( because its on a virtual machine) and I want to do kernel modification for it.
1- Is it recommended to do the the kernel compilation on a machine with Fedora 5 on it ?
2- Is there a limitation to the kernel version I should chose?
There is no "recommended" machine to do kernel compilation. If you're trying to build a kernel for F5, build it on the machine you want to run it on. Limitations? You bet...the latest kernel probably will complain, since your machine/libraries/etc., are so old, and you'll have to disable some things. That's a 'maybe' though...never tried going back that far.

Don't know why you have to continue with F5, because it's a virtual machine....F5 got loaded on there at some point, so you can load FC10, or whatever else you want....
 
Old 04-12-2009, 07:17 PM   #7
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I agree that building kernels works bet when compiled on the target system, or a similar system. Simply moving an FC10 kernel to an FC5 box is extremely unlikely to work.

As a matter of fact, you can do a much better job by simply upgrading the whole FC5 system via yum to FC6, and later on to FC7, etc, etc. You have to install the fedore-release packages and then run 'yum upgrade'. I'm sure that Googling for 'Fedora yum upgrade' will throw some infos.

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I would NOT try using "upgrade on a fedora 5 box
This will NOT work
5 upgrade to 6
6 upgrade to 7
7 upgrade to 8 ...
won't work ( or there is about a less than 5% chance it might )
do a fresh install of fedora 10 or in about 1 month fedora 11
 
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I would NOT try using "upgrade on a fedora 5 box
This will NOT work
5 upgrade to 6
6 upgrade to 7
7 upgrade to 8 ...
won't work ( or there is about a less than 5% chance it might )
do a fresh install of fedora 10 or in about 1 month fedora 11
Couldn't agree more....I've never had good luck with upgrades. Even when they do work, I've always found some library or other widget, that has two copies somewhere, an old version in a different place, etc., just waiting to cause problems.

Much better to do a fresh install.
 
  


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