>>>>> "woodgrove" == woodgrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
woodgrove> I'm trying to build the kernel for RedHat 9 (2.4.20) so
woodgrove> that I can install a device driver. I did the "make config"
woodgrove> to the best of my ability to guess - is there a way to
woodgrove> obtain the configuration from which the original
woodgrove> installation was built?
Dunno about redhat, but many distributions store the .config file used
in /boot.
woodgrove> When I ran "make clean; make dep; make boot" it ended with:
woodgrove> Boot device is (3, 3) Boot sector 512 bytes. Setup is 2533
woodgrove> bytes. System 1092 kB System is too big. Try using bzImage
woodgrove> or modules. make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1 ...
Do
make bzImage
to build a compressed file to install.
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