From: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net>
To: Younggyun Koh <young@cc.gatech.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: seperate environments for different kernels
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40B98B0D.7090209@tomt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0405292206320.2487@tokyo.cc.gatech.edu>
Younggyun Koh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to run linux 2.6.6 kernel, which needs upgrade of some system tools
> such as module-init-tools and nfs-utils. but other guys using the same
> machine with 2.4 kernel don't want me to upgrade them.
>
> is there any way i can make different system tools installed when i boot
> with the different kernel images other than mounting root directory to the
> different partitions? (i can't create a new partition)
Modern distributions handle this more or less transparently.
module-init-tools can call on modutils if it sees you're running a 2.4
kernel.
--
Cheers,
André Tomt
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-30 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-30 2:13 seperate environments for different kernels Younggyun Koh
2004-05-30 5:58 ` Rob
2004-05-30 6:12 ` Rob
2004-05-30 7:19 ` Andre Tomt [this message]
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