[ale] Kernel Upgrade question

[James P. Kinney III]

To populate the /usr/src/linux directory, you need to install the
kernel-headers rpm to keep thing all RedHat. 

I use RedHat. The only thing I don't want rpm'ed is the kernel. It's a
real brutal bugger to rpm-ify a new kernel source. Thay have a bunch of
patches they hand weave in to make fit. Which is why they don't release
a new kernel.rpm for each new kernel.

The best solution is to download the
kernel-brand-spanking-whateveryouwant.tar.bz2 and unwrap it in /usr/src.
It will overwrite an existing linux directory, so you've been warned. If
you have the kernel header from RedHat, I think it includes the
linux.config file. If so, copy it to the new linux directory and make
old-config. take the defaults for all the new stuff then run make
xconfig, make menuconfig. 

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:53, Charles Marcus wrote:
> Hmmm...
> 
> This is a redhat 7.2 box, and the /usr/src directory is there, but empty...
> 
> Anyplace else these could be?  I'm basically just looking for a good starting point.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Charles
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Philips [mailto:jcphil at mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 4:13 PM
> > To: Charles Marcus
> > Cc: Ale (E-mail)
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Kernel Upgrade question
> > 
> > 
> > See the file .config in /usr/src/linux.
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:08, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm gonna try my hand at compiling some kernels for 
> > practice, and was wondering...
> > > 
> > > Is there s way to find/list/print the flags (options) that 
> > were chosen with the current kernel?  I mean, are these saved 
> > somewhere in the sources, or the headers, or somwehere?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Charles
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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