What's an Install Fest?

[troy]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 01:48:31PM -0800, Christopher Wagner wrote:
> 
> As far as recompiling the kernel, recompiling the kernel in Redhat can be a
> little tricky, you must make sure that you get the kernel sources from
> Redhat.

Really?  I run RedHat and usually get my kernel sources from
mirror.nblug.org/kernel.org :-)

On my notebook i'm often finding the the need to apply various patches
that are against one of the "mainstream/official" kernel source
packages, and they generally won't apply cleanly against redhat sources.

The rest of your advice and suggestions are spot-on, so good in fact
that i'm not even going to trim them :)

-t

> Usually just getting a newer compiled kernel from Redhat with all
> the appropriate modules and whatnot is probably a good idea unless there is
> specific hardware you are trying to support that the kernel or the kernel
> modules provided are not supporting.
> 
> In any case, I wish you luck.  If you are still having difficulties, a Linux
> Installfest is probably an excellent place to get support.  There is also
> some wonderful resources for Linux on the net.  http://www.linuxdocs.org/
> and Redhat has quite a few resources on their site for Redhat Network
> members.
> 
> - Christopher Wagner
> chrisw at pacaids.com