From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261907AbUE3HTp (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 03:19:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261932AbUE3HTo (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 03:19:44 -0400 Received: from ns1.skjellin.no ([80.239.42.66]:53910 "HELO mail.skjellin.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261907AbUE3HTm (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 03:19:42 -0400 Message-ID: <40B98B0D.7090209@tomt.net> Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:41 +0200 From: Andre Tomt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Younggyun Koh CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: seperate environments for different kernels References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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