Re: 10 Gig disk & redhat 4.2

["LeRoy D. Cressy" <ldc@netaxs.com>]

Gayle Wittenberg wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install a 10 Gig Quantum Fireball disk under Redhat 4.2.
> There seems to be a problem with the kernel understanding the disk
> geometry.  I can't find a version of the kernel to upgrade to that would
> fix this problem - I think  2.0.34 would work, but I can't find an rpm for
> it.  Has anyone else gone through this?  It may be that the only answer is
> to upgrade to 5.1 or 5.2.
> 

Why not try to down load the source tar ball and make a custom compile
of one of the later kernels like 2.1.130?  this can be fetched from 

      ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/

This is the directory of the entire 2.1 series of kernels.

make a directory in either /usr/src/ or /usr/local/src/ called
kernel-source_2.1.130 or whatever version of the kernel that you
download.  Next make a symbolic link called linux using 

    ln -s kernel-source_2.1.130 linux

Now is the time to unpack the tarball of the kernel source

ls of the src directory should look like:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 1046     1046           21 Oct 10 14:57 linux ->
kernel-source-2.1.130
drwxr-xr-x  15 root     root         1024 Oct 21 16:52
kernel-source-2.1.130
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     root     12514594 Nov 26 16:38
linux-2.1.130.tar.gz

Unpacking the source tatball:

    tar -xzvf linux-2.1.130.tar.gz

Read the readme file and make a custom kernel designed for your system.
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