RH ES2.1, how to upgrade to kernel 2.6?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Adam Williams wrote:

> Because my company relies on a proprietary piece of software that 
> requires oracle 9, and oracle 9 is only support on rh es 2.1 from our 
> vendor. 

oracle 9 isn't going to be supported on the 2.6 kernel in all likelyhood.

This might be time to look at seperating some of ryour services.

> but since this server will soon be our primary server, the tape 
> drive autoloader will be on it, and I need large file support for samba 
> so I can transfers the backups from the other servers to this one to 
> write to the tape.  I was able to get all of the rpms I needed updated, 
> I foudn what I needed on rpmfind.net.  But kernel 2.6 still won't compile :(
> 
> William Hooper wrote:
> 
> >Adam Williams said:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi, I know this list is for fedora, but I don't know of an enterprise
> >>mail list,
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
> >
> >  
> >
> >>and I figured some of you out there may run ES 2.1 and could
> >>help.  I have a server I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6 for >2GB file
> >>size for samba file support.
> >>    
> >>
> >[snip]
> >  
> >
> >> any suggestions?
> >>Thanks!
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Since you are invalidating the support anyway, why not try either FC1 or
> >one of the FC2 test releases?
> >
> >Of course if you want to keep support, try RHEL 3.  Not sure if it will
> >fix the issue or not.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 

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