Kernel Upgrade

[Brett I. Holcomb]

hdparam will set the paramaters of you dvd so if they are not optimal it 
may help.

As for Caldera supporting this Caldera no longer exists - they evaporated 
when they became SCO.  Even before that they were essentially telling the 
users to go jump off a cliff.  SCO has absolutely no interest in maintain 
Caldera Linux - the only reason SCO exists is so McBride and company can 
manipulate stock prices and make a fortune - as well as making his lawyer 
buddies rich.  In short - "you ain't got no security updates or support".

Seriously, I'd take a spare partition - buy another drive if you have to - 
and then put another distro such as SUSE or Gentoo or another of  your 
choice on it and learn by building kernels for them.  At least you'd end up 
with a system that will be around for awhile.  By using another paritition 
you won't wipe your existing stuff, can boot either LInux, and can access 
existing data from the new parition.


Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> Sat, 22 Nov 2003 19:34:25 -0800
>> On 11/22/03 16:28, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
>> 
>>> I am still using a Caldera OL WS 3.1.1 as my main system.  (I like
> What would I look at with hdparm?  (I just had a thought about upping the
> priority of Xine...)
> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> For a 2.4.x kernel they will work, assuming that you aren't making any
>> other mistakes.
> 
> I am assuming that I am making several other mistakes.
> 
> The reasons for wanting to upgrade the kernel are many:
>      1.  I want to learn how to compile a kernel
>      2.  I am worried about Caldera supporting this distro much longer
>          with associated security concerns
>      3.  I *REALLY* don't want to wipe and reload my main system
>      4.  Watching DVD's on it is a painfull experience so my kids are
>          clammoring for windows
> 
> I am looking at other distro's and leaning towards gentoo but with Novell
> buying SuSE I want to look hard at that offering.  (I intend to go back
> into IT when I finish school and Novell is an established brand there.)
> 
>      -- Alma

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