Re: RH 7.1 installation

David Mosberger <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:27:19 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.ia64.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>>>>> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:55:39 -0600, "Fernando Ortiz" <[email protected]> said:

  >> Please note that the v2.4.9 kernel is _ancient_ by almost any
  >> standard.  There have been many important fixes since then.  Certainly
  >> for anything that's connected to the Internet, I'd highly recommend to
  >> upgrade to a newer kernel.

  Fernando> Could you please tell that to someone at RedHat!

  Fernando> I'm using the latest kernel available thru up2date service
  Fernando> 2.4.9-40.

Someone from Red Hat can answer this better, but AFAIK, the current
Red Hat for ia64 is Advanced Workstation/Server, which comes with a
kernel based on 2.4.19 (IIRC).

	--david