Robert G. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about Red Hat's distributions not installing kernel sources ready to be built. This is just a note to thank you for sticking with this discussion. About a year ago I bought RH 5.0 for my dual PII PC, and I've been feeling like a chump ever since, because I still haven't figured out how to get the sources installed so that I can build an SMP kernel. This hasn't been a pressing problem -- I'm a BeOS developer who got Linux just to have it on hand, and I hardly use Linux at all, but it's embarrassing to be someone who's been using various commercial UNIX versions for ten years and feels familiar with them, yet be completely at sea wrt the distribution I paid for. Red Hat's Web site is, or at least was, quite insistent that the support provided with a distribution is only for installation, and I didn't choose to have my nose bitten off by asking their support people how to move to an SMP kernel -- after all, I had successfully installed a runnable Linux by that point. I did ask what to do here, as well as on the Seattle Linux list, after having read all of the HOWTO's I could find, but I'm afraid the responses all began by telling me to ignore whatever SRPM's I have, and I just don't want to do that before I get my fifty buck's worth out of what I have on hand. In sum, over a year's time, I've got so far as to have a bunch of .tar.gz and .patch files sitting in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES (apparently I've more or less successfully installed the SRPM's from the CD), but haven't found a clue what to do next. I'd welcome guidance from anyone who's built an SMP kernel from RH 5.0. Regards, John R. Ashmun Be Developer ID #2795 - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
