>
> Newbie with a problem, must be the right place.
>
> I have been fiddling with RH 5.1 for a week and a half now and need some
> help. I intend to use loadlin to dual boot, but I have run into a few
> problems.
>
> #1. *Somehow* finally managed to get kernal support for vfat and
> iso9660 filesystems, never would install with it. The problem here is
> that it only gives me support for them when I boot from my boot disk.
> It would seem that compiling a new kernel would allow me to build these
> in. This leads to...
>
> #2. Can't get "make" to make anything. "make config" and "make
> menuconfig" give me some error about rules don't exist or something like
> that, but the kernel that was initially installed should work to begin
> with for learning the basics but I'm running in circles.
>
> #3. Can't find zImage or anything that appears to be a kernel image
> anywhere, I copied "vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6" to a Windows partition and it
> boots, but no support for the filesystems as mentioned in #1.
>
If you can't make the kernel, then of course you won't find
the zImage file.
I wonder if you really have the kernel source installed.
try this on the command line:
rpm -qa | grep kernel
In order to compile the kernel, you need the source and header packages
installed. If you don't see:
kernel-source-XXXXXXX
kernel-headers-XXXXXXX
where XXX is your kernel version, you don't have the source installed,
and you need to install them off the CD.
I know this seems obvious, but its the only reason that I can think
of that would cause 'make menuconfig' to fail with the errors
you mentioned.
Bryan Scaringe
> I have a PII 333, 64Mb Ram, 6.4 and 7.0Gb IDE hard drives, an IDE
> CD-ROM, everything is supported, intention is to have a Win98(write
> Visual Basic programs for work, I'd be happy to DUMP the memory
> hog...)/Linux dual boot, I've been reading tons of HOWTOs, FAQs, but
> nothing seems to match! Any help would be most appreciated...
>
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