[newbie] Building the source to reflect current config

2003-12-30 Thread George P. Stathis
Title: Message Hello, I am running Mandrake 9.2 and I am trying to install VMware Workstation 4 on it (http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html). This software requires the header files of the Linux kernel since it makes some changes to them. When I downloaded the 3 disks of

Re: [newbie] Building the source to reflect current config

2003-12-30 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:00, George P. Stathis wrote: Firstly, please lose the Reply-to address. It causes replies to go directly to you rather than the list. Thanks. When I open my KDE control center, the release number is 2.4.22-10mdk and the machine is i686. OK, that is the standard kernel

Re: [newbie] Building the source to reflect current config

2003-12-30 Thread George P. Stathis
Wow, if this isn't excellent help, I don't know what is. Thank you for taking the time. The difference between the two packages is apparent immediately after I unpack them. The kernel-source package installs the built source directly under /usr/src/linux. After installing it, I was able to