Well the "plan" was to get this to work on a stock Red Hat setup - with the
stock Red Hat kernel source.
Basically I'm installing FreeSWAN and while _I_ have no real problem
recompiling various Kernels I need to document a method that's the least
painful for the couple of Linux newbies I'll be showing this too.
Yeah, I'm moving on to 2.2.14 :).
Marc
-- Marc Matteo Online Technology Leader http://www.sacbee.com----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lavender" <brian@brie.com> To: <lug-nuts@saclug.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: Re: [Lug-Nuts] Compiling the Kernel from Red Hat source
> Why not grab 2.2.14 from sunsite, or grab the 2.2.13, and 2.2.14 patches > to upgrade that kernel to the recent version? > > You can get kernel source and patches from cdrom. > > ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/sunsite/kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2 > > Once you get the 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 patches you can apply them > with the command. Put the patches in /usr/src and execute > the following command from /usr/src/linux directory of your > current 2.2.12 source. > > # for l in ../patch-2.2.1*; do gzip -cd < $l | patch -p1; done > > Thanks to Mike Simons for showing me this command. > > brian > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:23:58PM -0800, Marc Matteo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone successfully compiled a kernel directly from the Red Hat > > kernel-source-2.2.12-20.i386.rpm (part of 6.1)? > > > > I'm trying to rebuild a "standard" Red Hat kernel with a few minor tweaks > > but I'm getting an armload of "unresolved symbol" errors for most of my > > modules. > > > > The only kernel build related tweak I'm doing that could throw things off is > > I'm messing with the EXTRAVERSION variable in the toplevel Makefile. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Marc > > -- > > Marc Matteo > > Online Technology Leader > > http://www.sacbee.com > > > > > > ********************************************************** > > * Sacramento Linux Users Group Mailing List > > * > > * Unsubscribe: Send a message to majordomo@saclug.org > > * With 'unsubscribe lug-nuts' in the body > > * > > * http://www.saclug.org > > -- > Brian Lavender > http://www.brie.com/brian/ > ********************************************************** > * Sacramento Linux Users Group Mailing List > * > * Unsubscribe: Send a message to majordomo@saclug.org > * With 'unsubscribe lug-nuts' in the body > * > * http://www.saclug.org >
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