Well, now I'm beginning to feel like a pest. I hesitate to ask, but it has
become necessary. (I really need the agpgart support of the new kernel for
my video card and mobo combo.) I have the files you referred to below
(downloaded a couple of days ago) and read the howto at mandrakeuser.org and
I still don't know how to compile it. The site gave instructions how to rpm
-i and how to compile from the tarball, but how does one compile the source &
accompanying for one's system from those four files listed. I did try to read
the docs, but I'm afraid I never hit upon a compile section. Google search
sent me all over hell and half of Georgia. (I'm used to tar.gz or src.rpms.)
I'm sure there must be a way. (I'll spare you my speculation.)
As always, thanks in advance,
-s
On Saturday 10 February 2001 06:10 pm, you wrote:
> I've only d/l'd the kernel...src.rpm once. I don't remember the
> exact version 2.4, but 'rpm --rebuild' didn't produce kernel*.rpms as I
> expected, but just unpacked source into /usr/src/<k-version> NBD, I
> just compiled from that, but usually I prefer to get the kernel
> source/header/utils/docs rpms and install those. eg,
> kernel-doc-2.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
> kernel-headers-2.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm kernel-utils-2.4.1-4mdk.i586.rpm
> from the list of cooker mirrors
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerdevel.php3
>
> Of those sites, the ones with the ++ designation are the most up to
> date and complete. 'Course where you are makes a lot of difference.
> From where I'm at in Texas, I have the best results with the French and
> German sites, ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/ and
> ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/devel and the one in
> the USA ftp://ftp.wtfo.com/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/
>
> Now, here's where a good d/l butler is invaluable. I use nt
> (Webdownloader for X). When I d/l the 2.4.1 I'm using right now, I
> started at the usually good uni-bayreuth site, but several mb's into it
> it got real slow, so I stopped and switched to the wtfo site, and nt
> picked it up and resumed ... no problem, nothing lost.
