On Wednesday 14 February 2001 16:24, William Schwartz wrote:
> I'm currently running a stock 7.2 mandrake and was wondering if there's
> a list of recommended rpm's to upgrade to start using the 2.4.1 kernel.
>
>
> thanks,
> Bill
I was able to get to 2.4.1 by d/l'ing the source from www.kernel.org and
compiling it myself. Detailed instructions on this can be found in the kernel
HowTo. The only thing missing from the howto that you need to do is that in
addition to copying the kernel from .../arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot (and
naming it something that makes sense like "vmlinuz-2.4.1", you also need to
copy System.map to something like /boot/System.map-2.4.1 as well.
Here's another related question for those in the group that I am confused
about. For various purposes, including compiling various software packages,
you need to have the correct kernel headers in /usr/src/linux/include. I
currently, for instance, have the 2.2.17 ones that came with the MDK 7.2
iso's. Of course, now that I am running on 2.4.1 the headers should differ a
bit, but so far everything seems to work ok without updating /usr/src/include.
I am concerned because I want to upgrade to X 4.0.2 and install the nvidia
drivers from their website. The very detailed instructions on the nvidia
website make a point of stating that you need to have the correct kernel
header files available for the compile, though. I wonder if I need to copy
the 2.4.1 include files into /usr/src and relink to them?
OTOH, I was recently pointed to a posting somewhere that said that you don't
need to keep upgrading the header files. It make the point that even Linus is
running the latest (obviously) kernel with older header files, but of course
HIS were 2.3.x, which are likely to be closer to 2.4 than the 2.2.x headers.
So, do I need to upgrade them, or not?
Neal
