Re: Hey
Chris said:> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:04:35PM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote:
> > Can anyone help me with recompiling my kernel? I'm relatively new to
> > Linux and am running the Corel V1.0 which is basically Debian. I've
> > read all the man and HOWTO pages and none of the commands specified
> > seem to work. I'm getting errors from "make config," "make xconfig,"
> > and "menuconfig" like: "nothing to do," "target not specified," and
> > "rules not found." What I want to do is reconfigure the kernel to
> > just get rid of unneeded stuff (i.e. SCSI, RAID, etc) and add a NE2000
> > driver to get my network card working. Who wants to help? Please
> > just give me the steps, at this point I don't care if I have to
> > reinstall the system again. I also did a full install so point me to
> > the right directories for source and whatnot.
>
> First of all, a bit of etiquette: please wrap your lines at less than
> 80 characters. Thank you.
>
> First, you need to make sure that you have the kernel source. If not,
> try one of the kernel.org mirrors and hunt around until you find a file
> like linux-2.2.16.tar.gz. Then untar it into the /usr/src directory
> (you will probably need root privileges to do this) using the command
> "tar xvzf linux-2.2.16.tar.gz". This should create a directory linux/
> in /usr/src. You should then cd into that directory. Now you should be
> able to make menuconfig.
>
> Once you are done configuring to your heart's content, you need to make
> dep and make bzImage. If you have selected any options as modules, you
> will also need to make modules and make modules_install. This will all
> take a while, so you can have a cup of coffee.
>
> Next is getting lilo to work. You should mv arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
> /boot/bzImage-2.2.16 and add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf file.
>
> image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.16
> label=newlinux # can be whatever you want it to be
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda5 # assuming this is true
> # any other things that you want, like append="mem=127M" for
> # example
>
> You should add this directly above the first such entry that already
> exists in /etc/lilo.conf. Then run lilo and reboot. Don't worry too
> much about making mistakes; you can boot the old kernel by typing the
> its name (most probably linux) at the lilo boot: prompt.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Chris
>
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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:04:35PM -0700, Bill or Summer wrote:
> > Can anyone help me with recompiling my kernel? I'm relatively new to
> > Linux and am running the Corel V1.0 which is basically Debian. I've
> > read all the man and HOWTO pages and none of the commands specified
> > seem to work. I'm getting errors from "make config," "make xconfig,"
> > and "menuconfig" like: "nothing to do," "target not specified," and
> > "rules not found." What I want to do is reconfigure the kernel to
> > just get rid of unneeded stuff (i.e. SCSI, RAID, etc) and add a NE2000
> > driver to get my network card working. Who wants to help? Please
> > just give me the steps, at this point I don't care if I have to
> > reinstall the system again. I also did a full install so point me to
> > the right directories for source and whatnot.
>
<snip>
>
> First, you need to make sure that you have the kernel source. If not,
> try one of the kernel.org mirrors and hunt around until you find a file
> like linux-2.2.16.tar.gz. Then untar it into the /usr/src directory
> (you will probably need root privileges to do this) using the command
> "tar xvzf linux-2.2.16.tar.gz". This should create a directory linux/
> in /usr/src. You should then cd into that directory. Now you should be
> able to make menuconfig.
>
Use "apt-get install kernel-source-2.x" to download and install the kernel
source. Also do "apt-get install kernel-package" and read the README in /usr/
share/kernel-package.
--
ptw
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(paul@cvanet.com)
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