Re: tlug: Are kernels interchangable?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "ida" == ida Masatomo <Uc> writes:

(You might want to quote that name ....  If the VM mailer screws up on
your header, it's probably your header that's not RFC-822-compliant.)

    ida> Talking about distributions, you need to name the
    ida> distributions. For example Redhat 4.2 & Turbolinux 1.0 are
    ida> similar. I suppose there won't be problem.  But Debian 1.3.1

Actually, you can have big problems because of the modules, as Scott
mentions.

    ida> & Redhat 4.1 are not similar. Libraries are different. So
    ida> there might be problem.

Kernels don't (dynamically) link in the libraries.  They can't:
libraries can't be found until there's a file system to index them
with, and file systems are part of the kernel.

Modules theoretically could, but they don't.

So as long as you bring the _whole_ kernel, modules and all, across,
_and_ you have no software which is dependent on a different kernel
version (eg, file system tools), you're OK.

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