Upgrading Kernel on RHL9?

From: Aviram Carmi (aviram_at_overthenet.com)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: 24 Oct 2003 13:14:06 -0700

Hi all,

I am attempting to recompile the kernel on RedHat Linux 9 (Red Hat),
but I might as well install the latest stable kernel...

RHL 9 comes with 2.4.20-9 as the latest available.

however, 2.4.22 is out, and been out for a while. it adds ACPI which,
as far as I understand is another way to monitor processor temp, seems
that i2c/lm_sensors will not work with IBM systems, something with
ThinkPad EPROM (my system is xSeries 220 type 8646)...

[any other ways to see/monitor Processor temperature?]

However...

I very much hesitate to mess with the system, since each time I tried
to do so, I managed to break the system, for example, I once tried to
install a later version of Mozilla into RHL 7.x and managed to break
lots of utils/programs/gui stuff, do not really recall, but I think
that the main thing broken was the help system, which I use a lot...

any way. is there a "safe" way to install a new kernel on RHL?

Does RedHat make any custom changes/patches/fixes to the kernel
source?

Where should I get the source from?

directly from the kernel.org:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.22.tar.bz2

from redhat rawhide?

from redhat beta/severn?

I found two versions of the sources, once is
kernel-source-2.4.22...i386.rpm and the other is
kernel-2.4.22...src.rpm (one in the RPM tree, one in the SRPM tree)

I the following are the latest I could find, Which should I use?
 
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.i386.rpm

or

kernel-2.4.22-1.2088.nptl.src.rpm

what does 1.2088.nptl means?

are there any other packages I'll need to update if I want to install
the new kernel?

Thanks,

-avi

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