precompiled Athlon optimized kernel

**samwichse** · May 10th, 2002, 07:13 PM

I dont't know if any of you other linux noobs have ever tried recompiling your kernel, but I found it to be pretty daunting and found I screwed up my install doing it. However, I just noticed that RedHat has listed for download here a pre-compiled, Athlon optimised version of the kernel. Just download it, hit upgrade in your package manager and reboot and your're golden.

Yep, it's the easy way out though...

Sam

EDIT: cause it's spelled kernel not kernal.

**capybara** · May 10th, 2002, 08:37 PM

good idea, but it times out every time ive tried it. in the middle of the night maybe try again!

**Scott Tiger** · May 10th, 2002, 10:40 PM

Whoa!! Thanks for the tip. I"m getting ready to install 7.3 soon and would like to see what kind of improvements you get with an optimized Kernel.

ST

**otheos** · May 11th, 2002, 01:48 AM

Could you please post your uname -a output?

**capybara** · May 13th, 2002, 10:06 PM

okay, now im getting it, but every DL on that link says *.386.rpm or *.noarch.rpm.
Xactly which rpms is the one you mean?
thx 4 your help, sorry im being so dense here.

**Scott Tiger** · May 15th, 2002, 09:50 PM

Well, I've finally found the time to get RH 7.3 installed and the first time I went to RHN the first update was the Athlon kernel. The architecture is called ATHLON instead of i386 or anything like that. That's what tipped me off to it. I usually don't do kernel upgrades but I did that one...

ST