Ken,
1. That's the way you make sure that what ever DASD you add will be
recognized at the next IPL. To make them available now, do an:
echo -n "add device range=addr1[-addr2] " >> /proc/dasd/devices
If you're only adding one volume, only specify one address. If you're
adding multiple volumes, that do _not_ have contiguous device numbers, issue
one command for each device number.
After that has been done, you should able to run dasdfmt, fdasd, and mke2fs
on them.
2. Source RPMs (.src.rpm or .spm) are usually installed in to
/usr/src/packages/SOURCES. If you install something named
"kernel-source-vv.rr.mm-b.rpm", then that will go somewhere else. You would
be able to query that with "rpm -qf kernel-source" and it would most likely
have been /usr/src/linux-2.4.7-something. It's entirely likely that the
files were already on your system, and you simply overwrote them, resulting
in no additional space being needed.
Mark Post
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Vance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Suse 7 kernet 2.4 Packages
Hi,
I have 2 questions:
1.) I added new DASD today to our Suse 7 system, kernel 2.4. I edited
/etc/zipl.conf and added the new DASD, and then I issued a zipl. Is this
the correct way to add DASD?
2.) One of our testers wants the kernel source, so I perfomed the
following steps:
-> Yast
-> Package management
-> Load Configuration
-> Change or create configuration
-> selected zq Source packages
-> selected kernel-source_spm
When I selected the item, the amount of free space went from 95.7mb to
71.8m
-> Start installation
It then downloaded the package and showed Installation complete
When I looked at the amount of free space on the one disk, it had returned
to 95.7. It seems that the source has not been installed. I have 2
disks, one with 95.7mb free, and the second with 2.11gb. I also tried a
smaller source that even when expanded would have fit on the first drive,
but I get the sane result.
Does anyone know what step I am missing? Also, once I finally do get the
source, what directory will it be in?
Thanks,
Ken Vance
Amadeus
