Re: where is my kernel source?
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, ktb wrote:
> Marlon Urias wrote:
> >
> > After going through pppconfig (after a fresh install of Debian 2.1) I
> > tried pon and got a error message about my kernel not supporting ppp.
> > So I head on over to /usr/src/linux to run make xconfig but alas, /usr/src
> > only has a dir named linux-x.y.z.headers (or something close). I was under
> > the impression that /usr/src/linux always existed. How can I reconfigure
> > my kernel under these circumstances? Do I need to download the source? Am
> > I looking in the right place? Help. Thank you. marlon
>
> My Slink had no /usr/src/linux. /usr/src contained
> 'kernel-headers-2.0.36/' and 'kernel-source-2.0.36/'
My /usr/src/ only contains kernel-headers-2.0.36, this isn't the weird
thing about my installation either. I guess I'll try looking in the cd.
thanks.
>I just moved to
> the "kernel-source-2.0.36/" directory and compiled the kernel. I later
> unpacked the 2.2.1 kernel expecting it to create a 'linux' directory
> with link like in Hamm. It didn't. I moved to the 2.2.1 source
> directory compiled and am now capable of booting two different linux
> kernels. I have no idea if this is the correct way or what, it just
> works.
> hth,
> kent
>
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