From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964939AbVITI5t (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:57:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964940AbVITI5s (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:57:48 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:32198 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964939AbVITI5s (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 04:57:48 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: fawadlateef@gmail.com Subject: Re: regarding kernel compilation Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:56:41 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Gireesh Kumar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <32854.192.168.9.246.1127197320.squirrel@192.168.9.246> <200509201112.28091.vda@ilport.com.ua> <1e62d137050920013752bf31d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1e62d137050920013752bf31d7@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509201156.42084.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > you are right, but if they exists .... but what IIRC I havn't found > them on FC4/RH EL4 distributions ..... Then build them from source. Big deal. > > > packages are updated and will only support 2.6 based kernel .... So > > > > Not true. I compiled 2.4 kernels on 2.6 machine without any problems. > > > On which distribution 2.6 based you compiled and succesfully run 2.4 > kernel ??? b/c its not working on FC3/FC4/AS4 ......... I used distro for installing my Linux box exactly once in my life when I installed Slackware (IIRC it was Slack 7). It got heavily modified over time... -- vda