Cheers Mikkel,
I wondered whether the path may not be correct to run make. One last
question - do I run make oldconfig first then one of the others menuconfig
xconfig or is oldconfig equivalent to these? I've read my "running Linux"
book and my "linux in easy steps" and the kernel howto and non of them
mention oldconfig at all. Cheers NH.
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:48:20 -0600 (CST)
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0
>
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Neil Hollow wrote:
>
>> Thanks for everyones response so far.
>>
>> I think i'll have a go at recompiling 2.2.18. I've downloaded it to work and
>> i'll burn it onto a CD-R. A couple of questions still. First make
>> config/xconfig and menuconfig won't run (as root in root home directory). I
>> did write down the error message but didn't bring it to work. I do have
>> ncurses lib. I installed all 1.5gb of RH6.0. Whats going on here?
>> Mikkel you say you have printer working with 2.2.18 someone else on this
>> list says I need patches is yours working w/o?
>>
>> How do I use make oldconfig (I cannot find this in any of my books in howto
>> etc)? So I can keep the existing bits in my kernel and add in SCSI and USB
>> support. Ta. NH.
>>
> You have to be in the base directory of the kernel source for the make
> commands to work correctly. Depending on how you untar the kernel
> source, it will be something/linux You can tell you have the correct
> directory because it will have a file called Makefile, as well as one
> called README and others. If you read the README file, the first line
> should say "Linux kernel release 2.2.xx".
>
> The command "make oldconfig" runs make, and tells it to run the section
> called oldconfig. It would take a book to describe the workings of
> make, so I will not try. Just remember that Makefile tells make how to
> do different things, depending on what you tell it on the command line.
>
> As far as USB is concerned, with 2.2.18, you do not have to add patches
> to use a printer. The patches that were needed before are now part of
> the kernel code. You just have to enable them when you configure your
> kernel.
>
> You may want to read the "Kernel-HOWTO" to learn more about compiling
> your own kernel. Have fun!
>
> Mikkel
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>
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