Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrew wrote: Something must have gone wrong because the system now complains about unresoloved symboles after the phrase calculating module dependancies. This often happens - did you rm all the old modules first? I know this is a little risky, so you probably should take the system

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-10 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
I had written: Even more badly, I mv'd all modules in /lib to my ~/ directory expecting the OS still to work assuming all relevant OS routines are located in RAM. Bad idea - no 'cp', no 'mv' , no nothing, the system is completely useless. I guess if I'm not able to get a small linux system

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: make clean make oldconfig dep bzImage and bzImage is in arch/i386/boot/bzImage. How exactly did you try to build your kernel? Did you get any error message? The kernel build process has nothing to do with Debian or any other distribution. It just needs

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-08 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: make bzImage helped to create arch/i386/boot/bzImage as you stated. I used before make zImage which in fact had put the file in arch/i386/boot/compressed/. So the size of about 0.6MB is valid. I was just wondering because the 2.0.38 kernel I recently

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
However, if you use make-kpkg to create your kernel package, you should find the *.deb file in the parent directory to the linux source. Good Luck! Oh my dear - what has happened! I thought the inquiry was very clear, this has nothing to do with package installing! Of course I

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Frederik Vanrenterghem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Of course I installed all neccessary src's, how would I've launched make xconfig without doing this first? Nobody said otherwise. The kernel compiled without any errors - but which file is the

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Of course I installed all neccessary src's, how would I've launched make xconfig without doing this first? Nobody said otherwise. The kernel compiled without any errors - but which file is the correct one?

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Carel Fellinger
Hai Robert Wilhelm, I think we have a communication problem here, so let's at both sides try to be more explicit and maybe a little more informative:) On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:18:26PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: ... Ok, I think I got it. Debian seems to provide a combined

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Carel Fellinger wrote: Hai Robert Wilhelm, I think we have a communication problem here, so let's at both sides try to be more explicit and maybe a little more informative:) Thanks for your patience, Carel. No, it is a three step process. 0) get the kernel source and apply all the

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
robert_wilhelm_land wrote: [...] As far as I'm concerned most distributions and README's recommend to create a linux/ dir as a sub of src/ and I did so. In the end this makes up: /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot - after x-tar'ing the kernet-sourcexx.tar.gz. Usually you

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:11:30PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Carel Fellinger wrote: No, it is a three step process. 0) get the kernel source and apply all the necessary patches 1a) configure the kernel 1b) and compile the kernel 1c) and build a deb file from it clearing the

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
brian moore wrote: Thats a nice and short explaination - thank you very much! I guess 2a includes make modules_install and mv's the system.map to the appropiate place? Yes, it does. Just got a message from another deb user - it didn't. and I would really like to understand why the

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: robert_wilhelm_land wrote: [...] As far as I'm concerned most distributions and README's recommend to create a linux/ dir as a sub of src/ and I did so. In the end this makes up: /usr/src/linux/kernel-source-2.2.17/arch/i386/boot - after x-tar'ing

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread brian moore
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:00:18PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: brian moore wrote: Thats a nice and short explaination - thank you very much! I guess 2a includes make modules_install and mv's the system.map to the appropiate place? Yes, it does. Just got a message from

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-07 Thread Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul
robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Andrei Pelinescu - Onciul wrote: [...] A small example of what you call masochistic: cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.18pre18 make config|menuconfig|xconfig make-kpkg --revision 9:blabla kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.18pre18_blabla*.deb If you keep up

cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-06 Thread robert_wilhelm_land
Just rebuilt my first 2.2.17 kernel, unfortunatly I'm not able to find the kernelimage(!) The readme reports to look at /usr/src/././arch/i386/boot/ but _this_ zImage is a binary only of 25xx bytes! There's one vmlinux at /usr/src/././arch/i386/boot/compressed/ in 0.6MB size - quite contrary to

Re: cannot find the Kernelimage aft compiling

2000-11-06 Thread Chewie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 08:05:33PM +0100, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Just rebuilt my first 2.2.17 kernel, unfortunatly I'm not able to find the kernelimage(!) OK. This is my second version of my reply email. I had to get my brain goalie back on the ice before I said something nasty. ;-) My