Edit 1/21/2009
No sooner do I get my site back up and running - (4 months is a little embarrassing to move to a new webhost), do I start receiving
Thanks for the comment Jack! I had no idea you could still get an archive of this information. It would be awesome if RedHat were distributing this stuff, instead of the folks at RPMFind. I can understand having a support policy with a reasonable life-cycle which we assuredly have surpassed. We'll call this the grumblings of a hasbeen admin who wishes this could just be easy.
I'm trying to install a RAID Card into a Linux file-server so we can amp up the storage.
Unfortunately it's running an older distro of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3) uname -r = 2.4.21-47.0.1.EL in case anyone cares.
In order to do that, I need to compile a driver. Not so difficult. The hardware manufacturer created a really nice readme.txt file that I'm pretty sure I can follow.
- For Linux kernel 2.4 -
You need a full kernel source tree to build the driver. If you are building
a driver for the currently in-use kernel, the kernel source should match
the version of the running kernel. In addition, you must obtain the config
file for the running kernel:
No problem - lets go grab this from a RPM (from RedHat). Think again buddy -
"This system may not be updated until it is associated with a channel."
Wow - That's kind of a nasty cryptic message. What does it mean though?
https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/release-notes/hosted/rhn-release-notes-2.8.0.jsp
Now when using up2date to register a system,
customers will be presented with a message stating "This system may not
be updated until it is associated with a channel" rather than an
error. The system will be registered with RHN but will be unable to
benefit from its service.
Let me spell that out for you dear reader. The myth of open source software isn't a myth. You can give away software for free. The bug fixes, and ongoing support... that will cost you.
I think I'm going to stick with an
operating system that allows you to pay up front for the patches of your system for the supported lifetime.