On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:42, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just for anyone who needs all the details (step by step), here's > what it takes to play with the latest 2.5 kernels (at least on > red hat 9). > > 1) upgrade to the latest red hat rawhide versions of both the > modutils and mkinitrd RPMs. you *need* the latest modutils RPM > to understand the 2.5 kernel, but that RPM is backward-compatible > if you want to reboot back to 2.4. (when, oh when, is red hat > finally going to get a grip and have the URL rawhide.redhat.com > take one *directly* to the rawhide repository? sigh.) > > 2) get latest kernel tarball (2.5.73 at last glance) from www.kernel.org > or ftp.kernel.org, and unload it under /usr/src. there is no need to > mess with symlinks, as the tarballs from kernel.org automatically > unload into the appropriate directory name (linux-2.5.73). > > 3) in order to be *really* up to date, grab the latest BK patch from > kernel.org, and patch. In other words.. make mrproper copy over config or use new one make oldconfig/menuconfig/xconfig make bzImage install modules modules_install mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.5.73.img 2.5.73 You left out make dep, is that not required now? Note: unless it changed in 2.5/2.6, make install does the copying for you AND edits grub.conf as well. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem!"
