> I did ask what to do here, as well as on the Seattle Linux list, after
> having read all of the HOWTO's I could find, but I'm afraid the
> responses all began by telling me to ignore whatever SRPM's I have, and
> I just don't want to do that before I get my fifty buck's worth out of
> what I have on hand.
It is unfortunate that nobody was able (or should I say willing) to help you
with your setup. The kernel sources come as and RPM in the standard Redhat
distribution (the SRPM is not what you are interested in normally). You
should install kernel*.rpm from your CD. On a stock 5.0 distribution you will
end up with kernel 2.0.32 with some Redhat patches. Now you need to do the
following:
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
vi Makefile # This is where you need to uncomment the line SMP = 1
make dep; make clean # makes all the dependencies and cleans up
make zimage # make bzimage if the kernel is going to be large
make modules # only needed if you select modules for various drivers
make modules_install # only needed if you built modules
Your kernel will be /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage or bzImage if you
did a make bzimage... You need to copy this to /boot and edit /etc/lilo.conf
and then run lilo. If you need help with those things you can email me
personally since that is outside the scope of this forum...
As stated by others, you would probably be much better off to get the latest
2.2 kernel source from ftp.kernel.org and build that. If you care to do that
you can skip editing the makefile as SMP is an option in the config program
now. You would greatly benefit from a 2.2 kernel doing SMP since 2.0 SMP
basically used one big lock for everything. This is extremely inefficient and
of course has been changed in 2.2. I would at least try to get the latest 2.0
kernel source since there were likely numerous bug fixes between 2.0.32 and
2.0.36. I had a friend who had nearly 200 days of uptime on a 2.0.34 kernel
which he used all day at work during the week. It didn't go down until he
accidently shut it down while he was talking on the phone...
Let me know how it goes,
-dath
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