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On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:48 +0200, Tal Rosenstein wrote: > Thanks for the swift reply. > But I have 1 more dumb question: > This is what I see when I type: > ftp:~# uname -a > Linux ftp 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux > > Is this the latest kernel ? [if not where can I download it from and how > can I install it ?] > Again thanks for the help Of the 2.4.x branch, 2.4.29 is the latest version (there's also a 2.6 branch). You can grab all the sources here: http://kernel.org/ Installing the kernel usually involves copying your current kernel config (that should be at /usr/src/linux/.config) into the new kernel (for instance - /usr/src/linux-2.4.29) - removing the symlink (/usr/src/linux) to the old kernel, and making a symlink to the new kernel. After all that, you do the compile, and install it and System.map into /boot. Then, if necessary, update the boot loader configuration file [and possibly install the boot loader again, if it's LILO]. That's really in general. In every distribution, you'll find things to slightly differ. For the 2.4 branch, installation usually looks something like that: rm /usr/src/linux ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.29 /usr/src/linux cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29 cp System.map /boot and then update lilo.conf or grub.conf accordingly.. (better append than replace - so if the new kernel doesn't work - you can still boot to the old one :) -- shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --=-1d3/AR/nBIvJTb+Hpw5J Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.2.5"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:48 +0200, Tal Rosenstein wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks for the swift reply.</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">But I have 1 more dumb question:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">This is what I see when I type:</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">ftp:~# uname -a</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Linux ftp 2.4.27-1-386 #1 Fri Sep 3 06:24:46 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Is this the latest kernel ? [if not where can I download it from and how</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">can I install it ?]</FONT> <FONT COLOR="#000000">Again thanks for the help </FONT> </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> Of the 2.4.x branch, 2.4.29 is the latest version (there's also a 2.6 branch).<BR> <BR> You can grab all the sources here: <A HREF="http://kernel.org/";>http://kernel.org/</A><BR> <BR> Installing the kernel usually involves copying your current kernel config (that should be at /usr/src/linux/.config) into the new kernel (for instance - /usr/src/linux-2.4.29) - removing the symlink (/usr/src/linux) to the old kernel, and making a symlink to the new kernel. After all that, you do the compile, and install it and System.map into /boot. Then, if necessary, update the boot loader configuration file [and possibly install the boot loader again, if it's LILO].<BR> <BR> That's really in general. In every distribution, you'll find things to slightly differ.<BR> <BR> For the 2.4 branch, installation usually looks something like that:<BR> <BR> rm /usr/src/linux<BR> ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.29 /usr/src/linux<BR> cd /usr/src/linux <BR> make mrproper<BR> make menuconfig<BR> make dep<BR> make bzImage<BR> make modules<BR> make modules_install<BR> cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.29<BR> cp System.map /boot<BR> <BR> and then update lilo.conf or grub.conf accordingly.. (better append than replace - so if the new kernel doesn't work - you can still boot to the old one :)<BR> <BR> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- <BR> shimi <<A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> --=-1d3/AR/nBIvJTb+Hpw5J-- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
