[Techtalk] 2.4.9-31

[Judy Hayes]

The problem is that my job is to make this kernel work with my business's
product.  We have customers working with this kernel version so it doesnt
matter what level everyone else is on I have to support the customers :o(  I
guess the first problem was that I am used to tar and not rpm which is what
this file is.   Thank you all for your help... I am still stuck trying to
compile however I am a little closer.  :O)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Carlo Hamalainen" <ch at uq.net.au>
To: "Judy Hayes" <silvertrinity at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] 2.4.9-31


>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Judy Hayes wrote:
>
> > Ok... I am trying to load kernel 2.4.9-31 on my RHat Linux server...
>
> That's a rather old kernel. I believe the latest is 2.4.18 (see
> www.kernel.org though, as I may be wrong).
>
> I've found it to be much easier to download a gziped or bzip2ed tar file
> of the source (not an RPM), and just install that.
>
> This just involves untarring the file in /usr/src to make a new linux
> directory, doing 'make xconfig' (nicest way to set things up), and then
> making the rest of the kernel.
>
> The section "recompiling your kernel" on
> http://www.opensound.com/linux-x86.html gives step by step instructions...
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -- Carlo
>
>