-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-admin@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Adam Williams
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:24 PM
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?
Because my company relies on a proprietary piece of software
that requires oracle 9, and oracle 9 is only support on rh es
2.1 from our vendor. but since this server will soon be our
primary server, the tape drive autoloader will be on it, and
I need large file support for samba so I can transfers the
backups from the other servers to this one to write to the
tape. I was able to get all of the rpms I needed updated, I
foudn what I needed on
rpmfind.net. But kernel 2.6 still
won't compile :(
William Hooper wrote:
>Adam Williams said:
>
>
>>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an
enterprise
>>mail list,
>>
>>
>
>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
>
>
>
>>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and
could help. I
>>have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file
size for
>>samba file support.
>>
>>
>[snip]
>
>
>> any suggestions?
>>Thanks!
>>
>>
>
>Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try
either FC1
>or one of the FC2 test releases?
>
>Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3. Not sure
if it will
>fix the issue or not.
ES 2.1 is a redhat product that's using a specialized 2.4.9 kernel.
Some of Mr. Cox's additions to kernel 2.6 are already in it,
particularly if you've used your subscription to fix vunerabilities.
ES 3 has even more of 2.6 in it. You will have some serious problems
finding **RPM's** that let you change your kernel to "2.6" given that
this shuts off your support from Redhat and Redhat themselves haven't
finished upgrading to kernel 2.6.
Short answer:
Upgrade to Fedora core 1
su - root
cp /etc/redhat-release /etc/redhat-release.backup
cat > /etc/redhat-release << EOF
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon)
EOF
You now have ES version 3... Sort of. Oracle won't know any different.
Shorter answer:
Buy ES 3