Check out the Step By Step website section on kernel building. > I need some input on my first attempt at compiling a new kernel. I am > running Caldera's 2.4.2 kernel underlying desktop 3.1. i want to upgrade > my kernel to 2.4.19, to get built in USB support so that I can synch my > Palm m505, as well as to get the added support of other improvements. > > Here's what i have tried and which did not work, yet. I downloaded the > kernel archive from kernel.org to my $HOME/down/kernel_2.4.19 folder. > There, I unpacked it and then ran two patches in that folder, to enable > Win4Lin to run on the kernel. After that I ran 'make menuconfig' which > seemed to work without any reported errors. When I run 'make dep' though, > I get several errors. > > In all this, and trying it (compiling) a couple times, and getting to the > 'make modules' step, the guidelines I was using said Now, su to root, and > I realized that I had compiled everything from make dep forward as root, > and it worked just fine, but i realize that likely will cause problems > running under that kernel as just a user, so when I go back and compile it > as user , it fails with various errors. > > Should I be compiling and doing all this in a different folder, i.e., a > branch off of /usr/src/ such as /usr/src/linux_2.4.19? Would that make a > difference? > > Thanks for any help with this, > > Scott > > p.s. my system is a pentium II 266 mhz clone
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