Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 15/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ti, 2008-07-15 kello 10:01 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > > > The relevant line now reads: "Make sure that you install those rpm > > files (as root) using either rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm or yum localinstall > > kernel-*." > > > > Just t

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-15 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
ti, 2008-07-15 kello 10:01 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like "Custom Kernel" HowTo survived "the > idiot test" by me. One question though: when installing the > rpms as the > last step (rpm -ivh

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like "Custom Kernel" HowTo survived "the > idiot test" by me. One question though: when installing the rpms as the > last step (rpm -ivh kernel-*.rpm), I get "error: can't create > transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/_db.000". That m

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
ma, 2008-07-14 kello 06:07 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > This is most likely because you missed the step of adding the # i386 > (or #x86_64) line. Could you check this out? > > Akemi That was it, indeed. Looks like "Custom Kernel" HowTo survived "the idiot test" by me. One question though: whe

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
ma, 2008-07-14 kello 06:07 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ma, 2008-07-14 kello 12:20 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > > > Now I'm testing your "I Need to Build a Custom Kernel" HowTo. Everything > > seems to be OK in

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ma, 2008-07-14 kello 12:20 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > Now I'm testing your "I Need to Build a Custom Kernel" HowTo. Everything > seems to be OK in the HowTo, even if the final build fails with an error > "Makefil

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
ma, 2008-07-14 kello 12:20 +0100, Alan Bartlett kirjoitti: > On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just looked at the updated "I Need the Kernel Source" HowTo > and in my > eyes it is now perfect. No doubt a careful person could now > succeed

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-14 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 14/07/2008, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just looked at the updated "I Need the Kernel Source" HowTo and in my > eyes it is now perfect. No doubt a careful person could now succeed in > building the kernel tree in one go. Thank you for kind words and very helpful feed-back

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
su, 2008-07-13 kello 08:14 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > But before my posting, I had already added a "back ticks" note in > parenthesis on that wiki page. Then Alan woke up (for people who > don't know he is in the UK) and made it much nicer. > > Akemi I just looked at the updated "I Need the

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:05:48PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> a) In section 2.1 it is said: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum install rpm-build".

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 12:05:48PM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> a) In section 2.1 it is said: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum install rpm-build". To > >> 'yum install' something you need to be superuser (as confirmed by '#'

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
su, 2008-07-13 kello 08:32 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > la, 2008-07-12 kello 22:02 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If there is a cer

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> a) In section 2.1 it is said: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] yum install rpm-build". To >> 'yum install' something you need to be superuser (as confirmed by '#' >> prompt before the command). Shouldn't the example read: >> "[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > la, 2008-07-12 kello 22:02 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there is a certain level of knowledge one must have before such > attempts, why

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:02:09PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> When I come to t

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
la, 2008-07-12 kello 22:02 -0700, Akemi Yagi kirjoitti: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps then, it is worth adding a line or two explaining that these are > > backticks, (and possible even mentioning where they are on the QWERTY > > keyboard.)

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:02:09PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > > Perhaps then, it is worth adding a line or two explaining that these are > > backticks, (

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> There is one (minor) problem with using the $() notation. That is, it >> does not work in *cough* csh. I said "minor" because (t)csh users are >> minority.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 09:11:10PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > > > This confuses many newcomers (and old timers with bad vision if they're > > not paying a

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Scott Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> They are "back ticks" :-) This is one of those things that might be >> regarded as Unix/Linux basics (?). It feeds the output of the command >> inside the ti

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 08:39:46PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Hi Antti, > > d) Two attempts of 'rpmbuild' perhaps failed because I inadvertently > > used single quotes or apostrophes around 'uname -m' inst

Re: [CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Antti J. Huhtala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Hi Antti, > I am a newcomer to CentOS but slightly less so to Linux in general > (FC4-F9). In short, I am trying to make an old SB Vibra 16C (ISA) sound > card work in Centos 5. To achieve this, support for ISA

[CentOS-docs] Suggestions on "I Need the Kernel Source" Wiki pages

2008-07-12 Thread Antti J. Huhtala
Hi all, I am a newcomer to CentOS but slightly less so to Linux in general (FC4-F9). In short, I am trying to make an old SB Vibra 16C (ISA) sound card work in Centos 5. To achieve this, support for ISA bus and ISA PnP is apparently needed in kernel. Therefore, a custom kernel needs to be built. -