[ILUG] Installing kernel-2.3.21-47.ELsmp

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:37:56AM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Walter Faleiro thought:
> Folks,
> Just a downgrade question. We have some old project software build for the
> kernel-2.3.21-47.ELsmp systems. It's to be run on 64-bit system. Thats all
> the information I have. I have a test RHEL 4 Workstation. Before I start
> building the downgrade kernel, can someshare share the experiences of
> downgrading the kernel, so that my work is shortened.

A left-field question here.  Does the software require that specific
_kernel_ or is it more a matter of requiring the glibc version that would
have been current?  And, if so, can you use compat-glibc-xxx on a later
system?

Conor
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