[PLUG] upgrading a redhat 7 kernel

[Daniel B. Herrington]

I've got to build a sybase 12- server on redhat 7. ASE requires 2.4.9 or
greater though.

I built a redhat 7.2, but maybe should do a 7.3 as that seems to be the
easier route.
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On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 13:49 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Daniel B. Herrington wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > Anyone have any steps to upgrade the kernel on redhat 7.
> 
> As in the Red Hat version released and updated from 2000 through 2003?
> 
> Red Hat 7.3, which was the last 7.x release, ran the 2.4.18 kernel. 
> You can probably build and run the latest 2.4 kernel release 
> (2.4.37.10) if you have access to the .config file used to build the 
> Red Hat kernel.
> 
> Red Hat's kernels were often highly patched, however, so it wouldn't 
> surprise me to discover that some bit of functionality is missing when 
> you build a stock kernel.
>