Kernel Upgrade

[Chong Yu Meng]

Alma,

My suggestion is that you upgrade to a more recent distro, and forget 
about running COL WS 311 completely. I know that sounds like a huge 
leap, and there will definitely be teething troubles, but it may help 
solve your problems more effectively.

Select a distro that has some kind of update tool, like Gentoo or Red 
Hat/Fedora. Ever since I switched to "the accursed distro", and 
installed apt-get, my updating problems have been solved ! And quite 
handily too, because, instead of hunting around for dependencies, I can 
issue a simple apt-get command and it installs everything for me. Yes, 
even kernels.

It's been a while since I had to compile a custom kernel of my own, but 
I think the old instructions should still hold true. If you are having 
problems, just send an email to the mailing list.

Regards,
pascal chong



Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> I am still using a Caldera OL WS 3.1.1 as my main system.  (I like 
> it.)  I am thinking it is time to update from the 2.4.13 kernel and 
> hoping it will solve the stalls when I watch DVD's.  I ran through the 
> SxS for updating kernels and it seems a bit dated.  It refers to 
> 'xconfig' and 'make xconfig' and other stuff that doesn't work as root 
> from a prompt.  I expect this to be a FOG (Fscking Opportunity for 
> Growth) but I didn't expect it to start so early.
>
> Can some kind soul gently point me to some recent documentation or an 
> entry point into this process?  (I remember hearing that some of the 
> config files are in weird places or have different names with the 
> Caldera distro.)
>
> I have 2.4.22
> Athalon XP 2000
> 1.5 GB RAM
> GA-7ZXE Mainboard (KT133A with AGP)
>
> TIA
>
>     -- Alma
>
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