Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-21 Thread jjheuring
> IMHO the kernel-package docs need lots of careful reading - others seem > to agree, or have given up on it :-) > > Richard Yea, I'm constantly amazed at how much there is to learn. I mean I was just going to do a simple cdrecord install and then "oh well I better quick learn howto recompile t

Re: loading mods from boot [was kernel compile step 1]

2001-09-21 Thread Greg Wiley
On Friday, September 21, 2001 7:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ok. Just to make things easy I only upgraded from 2.2.29pre-17-compact > to 2.2.19. Everything was painless except that on boot up the drivers > for my 3com nic cards don't automatically load as they did with > ...pre17-compact. I

loading mods from boot [was kernel compile step 1]

2001-09-21 Thread jjheuring
How do I make the new image load my nic mods on boot up? ok. Just to make things easy I only upgraded from 2.2.29pre-17-compact to 2.2.19. Everything was painless except that on boot up the drivers for my 3com nic cards don't automatically load as they did with ...pre17-compact. I sort of assume

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 19:30, Richard Hector wrote: > jjheuring wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote: > > > you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub. > > > > But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread D. Hoyem
Well I believe that Kernel-package is one of the packages that you need to install a kernel source the Debian way. If you are attempting to upgrade your kernel to 2.4.9, I think that is what I have read on this thread, then do a apt-cache search kernel. This will provide you all of the kernel's t

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread Richard Hector
jjheuring wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 09:28:01AM +0700, San Segkhoonthod wrote: > > you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from > > http://www.kernel.org/pub. > > But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that? No. kernel-package is a tool to help

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-20 Thread jjheuring
But doesn't 'apt-get install kernel-package' take care of that? As I understand things I should be able to cd to a specific dir/ and run an executable config file. RnTFnM or that is the README in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package I see it mentions some place not to unpack the kernel but not where

Re: kernel compile step 1

2001-09-19 Thread San Segkhoonthod
you can either install kernel-source-2.x.x packages or go get it from http://www.kernel.org/pub. san On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 07:21, jjheuring wrote: > > Could someone tell me where the is? > > I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'. Shouldn't it now be in > the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me.

kernel compile step 1

2001-09-19 Thread jjheuring
Could someone tell me where the is? I did 'apt-get install kernel-package'. Shouldn't it now be in the /usr/src dir ? That's empty for me. I've read the various README's at /usr/share/kernel-package and they had some other suggestions as to where I might want to unpack the kernel but I don't se