Wow. Now this is the kind of help we can all use. Thanks. I'll give that a try as soon as I shovel out my driveway. Cheers > On Tuesday 12 December 2000 11:57 am, you wrote: > > > I'm debating on compiling it this evening, just to try out, any > > specific tips on how I could compile and install it without killing my > > existing kernel install? > > It easy to make sure you don't clobber the old install with a few > precautions. First, check /usr/src/ for a linux directory. If it is a > sym link, unlink it. If it is an actual directory, mv it to something > else like linux-2.2.16 or whatever you will remember. Grab the source > tarball untar the new source in /usr/src. It should make a linux > directory, if not make a sym link to it. Also check /lib/modules, there > should be a directory named after the version number. Make a copy or move > this directory. It shouldn't conflict but better to have a back up. > > As this is your first compile, I recommend using the X menu config. Start > X as root, open a terminal and cd into /usr/src/linux and type make > xconfig. This is probably the easiest way to navigate the different > option. Help is there for most choices, and the interface isn't too bad. > Once done, make dep, then make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install > are the commands necessary to make everything. > > Copy the bzImage from /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot to your /boot > directory and name it something meaningful like vmlilnuz-2.2.18. Copy the > System.map from /usr/src/linux to your /boot directory and name it > something meaningful like System.map-2.2.18. > > Edit /etc/lilo.conf, copy and pasting the current linux listing should > work, plug in the right vmlinuz name, change the label and save. Run > lilo -v -t to test the lilo additions, and subtract the -t to make the > changes. Reboot and type in the new label. This way, if the new kernel > panics, acts funny, you just reboot and run the old kernel. Most every > linux box I build has at least one failsafe kernel, usually the last > stable one. If you like the way the new kernel is running and want to > make it the default kernel to boot lilo, just edit the default="label" > line in lilo.conf. Your new kernel becomes default and the failsafe is > still around in case something gets hosed well in the future. > > Enough with the long and rambling, there is also tell of a HOWTO on > mandrakeuser.org. Kernel compiling is fun Aunt Slappy. > > -- > Matthew Micene A host is a host from coast to coast, > Systems Development Manager and no one will talk to a host too close > Express Search Inc. Unless the host that isn't close > www.ExpressSearch.com is busy, hung or dead > > > > > There's plenty of semicolons to go around
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