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04-11-2009, 02:42 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
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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?
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04-11-2009, 05:33 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, Slack,CentOS
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Originally Posted by ddel
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?
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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.
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04-12-2009, 09:28 AM
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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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04-12-2009, 10:47 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
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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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04-12-2009, 11:50 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, Slack,CentOS
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Originally Posted by bg3075
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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Start your own thread, don't hijack someone elses.
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04-12-2009, 11:53 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Distribution: SuSE, RedHat, Slack,CentOS
Posts: 27,794
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ddel
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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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....
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04-12-2009, 07:17 PM
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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.
Last edited by Tinkster; 10-30-2010 at 03:34 PM.
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04-12-2009, 07:41 PM
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LQ Muse
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: A2 area Mi.
Posts: 17,702
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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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04-13-2009, 08:14 AM
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LQ Guru
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Location: Birmingham, Alabama
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John VV
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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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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