Slackware 10.0rc1 is now -current - Tue Jun 15 18:30:11 PDT 2004

Slackware 10.0rc1 is now -current - Tue Jun 15 18:30:11 PDT 2004
Current ISO's kindly provided by ananke - #Slackware @ irc.freenode.net:
ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/...e-current-iso/

phrag wrote:
> Slackware 10.0rc1 is now -current - Tue Jun 15 18:30:11 PDT 2004
> Current ISO's kindly provided by ananke - #Slackware @ irc.freenode.net:
> ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/...e-current-iso/

hello,

is there anything special i have to do to install the testing, 2.6.6
kernel? will the official release use the 2.4.26 kernel as the default
(if i'm uderstanding this correctly) thanks.

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:24:18 -0400,
weevil <doctorwu23@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> is there anything special i have to do to install the testing, 2.6.6
> kernel?

Firstly, it might be a good idea to check that your hardware/system
setup is currently supported in 2.6. This link has some info:
<http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt>

AFAIK, (I have no personal experience), there isn't much that's needed
to be done to make 9.1 run a 2.6 kernel. The necessary versions of
module-init-tools and the like are already in place, but maybe you'll
need the alsa-driver package from /testing/packages/, if you're not
compiling your own.

> will the official release use the 2.4.26 kernel as the default
> (if i'm uderstanding this correctly) thanks.

I think it's very likely that a 2.4 kernel will be the default. Perhaps
the 2.6 package will make it out of /testing and in to /extra or be made
as a second kernel option, like 8.1.

--
Mark Hill <usenet@mark.ukfsn.org>
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Mark Hill wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:24:18 -0400,
> weevil <doctorwu23@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>is there anything special i have to do to install the testing, 2.6.6
>>kernel?
>
>
> Firstly, it might be a good idea to check that your hardware/system
> setup is currently supported in 2.6. This link has some info:
> <http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt>
>
> AFAIK, (I have no personal experience), there isn't much that's needed
> to be done to make 9.1 run a 2.6 kernel. The necessary versions of
> module-init-tools and the like are already in place, but maybe you'll
> need the alsa-driver package from /testing/packages/, if you're not
> compiling your own.
>
>
>>will the official release use the 2.4.26 kernel as the default
>>(if i'm uderstanding this correctly) thanks.
>
>
> I think it's very likely that a 2.4 kernel will be the default. Perhaps
> the 2.6 package will make it out of /testing and in to /extra or be made
> as a second kernel option, like 8.1.
>

thanks for clearing that up for me.