Kernel update driving me mad

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Also sprach Mike Andrew on Sunday 10 March 2002 18:40:

> If you ever want to move away from the somewhat dated rh kernel releases 
> the 'trick' is to download a pristine kernel, or patch (as appropriate) and
> modify the following line in /usr/src/linux/Makefile
>
> EXTRAVERSION(space)=(space) -1
>
> this will give you an RH compatible naming convention (eg vmlinux.2.4.17-1)
> and thus allow /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to do it's normal boot up housekeeping.

Thanks, Mike. Until now, I always conservatively kept to the kernels supplied 
by RH and sometimes recompiled them to suit my needs.
Okay, 2.4.20+, here I come (soon)!
Klaus