I got it installed and everything seems to work fine. I only had to upgrade the util-linux and modutils packages. I compiled the util-linux stuff and grabbed the modutils rpm from Redhat 7. Works great so far. The Xwindows stuff looks a lot more complicated -- should be fun. sim "Kevin R. Bullock" wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote: > > > Another thing. I am also trying to install the new 2.4.2 kernel and > > > something has been bothering me. Redhat 7 came out saying it was > > > "Kernel 2.4 compatible". What exactly does that mean? > > The 2.4 kernel requires certain utilities. For example, you'll need to have > > a certain version of the modutils package installed. Without the newer > > version, you won't be able to run a modular 2.4 kernel. > > And you can see which versions are needed in the Documentation/Changes > file in the kernel source tree.