Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:49:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
To: Micah Yoder <yodermk@home.com>
cc: "linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Stability of the Red Hat 7.1 + XFS system
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Micah Yoder wrote:

> Thanks for the info everyone.  I'm going to re-compile the kernel and hope 
> things work better.  I grabbed the CVS development version ... is that 
> insane?  :-)  If it's working for all of you then I trust it!
> 
> I'd like to compile it on my home box, to eliminate the possibility of 
> something in the kernel compile triggering the bug on my server.  I'm 

If the hardware is sane, that should not be too much of a problem.
It takes about 15 minutes on my Athlon 500 with 256MB ram. You should be
able to survive at least that.

> wondering how muc of a mess it will be to move ... will I just need to scp 
> over the bzImage and the /lib/modules directory?  And there's probably no way 
> to do that without installing the kernel and modules on my home box (but not 
> booting with it).

Just tar them and copy them over.
tar -cjf linux-2.4.x-xfs.tar.bz2 /boot/*2.4.x-xfs* /lib/modules/2.4.x-xfs

copy it over, unpack, edit lilo.conf, run lilo, make sure everything is
there, cross fingers and reboot.

You could also compile the bzImage and modules, tar the tree and copy it
over, untar your tree and then run make modules_install && make install.
Everything will then be put into place. You only have to edit
lilo.conf, run lilo and reboot.

> What about all the additional programs?  Do they need to be updated?  There 
> doesn't appear to be a way to build them all at once.  Any tips on getting 
> them all compiled and moved over?

They don't need to be but you can run ./Makepkgs in the cmd tree which
will generate either rpms or debs of the util programs.

> Thanks!
> Micah

Good Luck