On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 11:27, shane c branch wrote: > I don't have much experience with source rpms, or rpms in general. I downloaded > the src rpm package for the kernel but I can't seem to figure out how to work > with it. The Red Hat site mentioned using rpm -ivh <filename> but using this > command reports an error: can't create /usr/src/.... path. I then copied the > file to /usr/src and tried agian, but no luck. > > I have always compiled kernels from a source tarball, but I wanted to try this > thinking it might be easier for a friend of mine to work with. Any help is > appreciated. If you want to compile the kernel, don't use the source RPM (SRPM or src.rpm), but instead use the 'kernel-source' binary RPM. Please see the very good documentation on that here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-custom-kernel.html But why do you want to rebuild a kernel? That is not usually the correct answer to your problem. The Red Hat kernels are quite good. --Jeremy -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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