Does anyone know what Kernels were available for SLES8? I have a bunch of SLES8 machines, with Kernel 2.4.21, that I would like to move to a later Kernel (the more recent the better) but don’t want to have to go up to SLES9 or 10.
Thanks
3 Responses to “Dear Lazyweb – SLES8 Kernels”
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David Goodwin Says:
August 4th, 2007 at 11:40 amCompile your own 2.4 version? It (the 2.4 tree) is still maintained.
I guess you could use something like ‘checkinstall’ to catch it and make an rpm from the build process.
You should find the kernel config that SuSE used in /boot; but SuSE do apply patches (e.g. to reiserfs) so if you’re using anything like ACLs with reiserfs, you might be stuck.
Do they really need updating? Why wouldn’t you update the kernel before e.g. Apache/Samba/Bind/LDAP etc etc
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Mark Says:
August 4th, 2007 at 4:45 pmIt’s only the Kernel we want to update, it will allow us to install it on newer hardware (tils). Basically the version of SLES we are on will not run on newer tills. Our till versions are no longer being shipped and supported, and so we will soon have to resort to E-Bay for spares, because we can’t run our SLES version on the latest till hardware.
I would like to avoid a full distro upgrade (expensive resource wise, and quite disruptive especially this time of year), so maybe a simple Kernel update might help us support newer hardware.
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David Goodwin Says:
August 16th, 2007 at 9:38 amYes – kernel upgrades normally fix most hardware issues – assuming other linux distros work on $hardware, then it seems a good way to go…
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