Re: Potato Upgrade.
Ahh,
sorry. I wasnt aware how a kernel version number worked.
Thanks,
Aaron
Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 10:14:11AM +1000, Aaron Daniels wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I recently upgraded my slink sparc5 box to potato.
> > During the upgrade it told me that to upgrade libc6 I needed to install 2.2.7 or
> > higher kernel.
> > I did so, but this is a production box and I dont really feel safe running a
> > kernel that unstable.
>
> What makes you think the kernel is unstable?
>
> Kernel versioning is:
>
> major.minor.revision (e.g, 2.2.7, 2.3.99)
>
> Unstable kernels are when the minor number is odd (i.e 2.3.99 ); revision
> does not indicate anything to do with stability.
>
> Thus: 2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x, are stable and 2.1.x and 2.3.x are unstable.
>
> > So my Questions are.
> > 1. is that libc6 error a requirement or a recomendation.
> > 2. is the 2.2.7 kernel stable enough for production use.
>
> There are a number of problems with 2.2.7 (though I don't know which
> specifically affect Sparcs). You should, as much as possible, be running
> the latest kernel which I believe is 2.2.15
>
> Anand
>
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Thanks,
Aaron Daniels
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