On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 08:19:41AM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: | I haven't seen a minimum, but I was wondering since there are a | couple of 133's here with 32meg of ram that I want to update. I used to have a machine with 8MB RAM running with a 2.4 kernel. It thrashed a lot (well, -anything- thrashes with only 8MB RAM) but worked. Now that machine has 48MB RAM and a 2.6 kernel. | Also, are any "gotchas" I need to be aware of with this kernel | migration? Current Googling only speaks of adding a line in | /etc/lilo.conf to say "initrd=/initrd.img" (sans quotes) but I am | still looking. You might need to load some modules or some details of some module may have changed. When I did the 2.2->2.4 upgrade I discovered I had to load the 'ide-cd' module or the cd drive was not usable. (it wasn't a separate module with the 2.2 packages) | Worst case I want to be able to boot the old kernel if I fudge up | the 2.4 install. This is always a good practice. Don't remove the old until you are satisfied with the new. HTH, -D -- A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in. --Kim Alm, a.s.r www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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