Re: what kernel to choose?
Samuel Flory <[email protected]>
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Stephen Mah wrote: > I have a dell two way running 1000mhz Pentium IIIs. It has a gig of > ram. I'm looking to upgrade the kernel to the latest errata stable > version. > > I'm currently running 2.4.7-10smp on RH 7.2. > > I'm looking at the redhat site, and I see many choices: > > kernel-bigmem, kernel-smp, kernel-enterprise, etc... > > Are they pretty much the same kernel, but optimized for specific > hardware? > You want kernel-smp*i686.rpm. (IE kernel-smp-2.4.20-18.7.i686.rpm) Bigmem, and enterprise are really the same, and are only useful to people with more than 4G of memory. http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-187.html -- Once you have their hardware. Never give it back. (The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <[email protected]> -- Psyche-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list