Ok. No problem. In future, try to keep the discussions on list so that others may also benefit from your experience.
Regards, Sunjith On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Jos Collins, ,TLS,Chennai wrote: > Yes. I missed ncurses. > > I have downloaded 64 bit packages from debian and recompiled the new 64 > bit kernel last week. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Jos Collin. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sunjith P S [mailto:sunjithps at gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:22 AM > To: Jos Collins, ,TLS,Chennai > Cc: This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software > Subject: Re: [Mailinglist] Fedora 7 x86_64 > > Hi Jos, > > On Thursday 05 July 2007, you wrote: > > As I know that kernel source is the same for all architectures, I > > downloaded v2.6.8 from kernel.org. It is the latest stable version > > available in kernel.org. The problem is 'make menuconfig' stops at the > > beginning itself!!! I know that there are some additional arguments > > which are to be passed to 'make'. So can you just guide me/ just refer > > some links which describes the kernel compilation method for AMD-64 > > bit? > > No additional args, its just the same. Maybe you're missing some compile > > utils. What's the error you are getting? > > > Also I found something strange. There is no amd64 directory in arch > > directory!!! But my FreeBSD installation is having that. Also I found > > that in my friend's machine, which is having CentOS (2.6 kernel). > > The arch is x86_64 > > Regards, > Sunjith
