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[Daniel Bauer]

From: "Kirill Korotaev" <dev at sw.ru>
>> this was the message from Kir:
>> From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <kir at openvz.org>
>>> Daniel Bauer wrote:
>>>> so is it possible to patch a 9.3 kernel with the sources of OpenVZ
>>>
>>> I believe not, since SuSE 9.3 is based on quite a different kernel 
>>> then that used as a base for OpenVZ. Instead you just take standard 
>>> OpenVZ kernel and complain if something doesn't work (everything 
>>> should work if your system supports kernel 2.6).
>>
>> so I think there is no way to patch the kernel?!
> There is no patched SUSE9.3 kernel yeah, but it is not required very 
> much, is it? There is no much special in SUSE kernels except for bug 
> fixes, drivers etc. And this is what we do in OpenVZ as well.

I tried now to install the ovz enterprise kernel and it doesn't work 
because it needs higher versions of mkinitrd and initscripts ...


>> No also the normal FC4 installation fails with accessing the Smart 
>> Array as installation destination. The message is "no space on 
>> device", but I allowed to take the hole disk (54GB). So if Fedora is 
>> not running and I'm not able to install the OpenVZ Kernel.
> You can install CentOS4.2, SUSE9.3 or whatever distribution which 
> supports your hardware. If OpenVZ kernel won't support this hardware 
> we just need lspci information from you to find out the driver which 
> will support it.

That is great. I'll prefer SuSE 9.3 because it works great for me and 
have all packages that I want.

Daniel