Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, Mandrake as far as I can tell doesn't ship the kernel sources > on any of the CDs. I was easily able to copy them down from rpmfind > but I was running around in circles for a while figuring out exactly > which rpms were needed. The kernel sources rpm depends on a version > ncurses. I downloaded that and then the kernel sources installed ok. > Now it gets more interesting. The kernel that Mandrake put on my > laptop is almost 100% in terms of it's recognizing and using the > system hardware. But the kernel sources don't have the specific > kernel configuration that was used to build the kernel on the distro. > I did notice that there are a bunch of .config files saved in a > directory on the system with names like > "mumble-kernel-enterprsed.config" and so on. It seems possible that > Mandrake actually has the configuration file somewhere on the system > but I'm not sure which one, if any, is the correct one.
Last time I upgraded a kernel (on Redhat), I discovered that there was a rule in the makefile for "rpm" (make rpm). This made it possible to install the new kernel without messing up the rpm dependency database. I first ran "make xconfig". I didn't try to guess any of the settings, I just clicked the load-config button, selected the most generic .config file, then did a save-config and exited the xconfig gui. I then did a "make dep" and a "make rpm", and then installed the rpm package which this created under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS. Note that I did an "rpm -i", not an "rpm -U", as the -U would delete the old kernel rpm, which should be deferred until after you've actually tested the system with the new kernel. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
