Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-26 Thread Robert L Martin
Quoth Pixel Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that would be part of the "other deps" thing and besides if you have a SCSI drive and didn't do SCSI in kernel YOU ARE CRAZY!! uh? yet again someone having something against modules? as for me, i don't have the time to build my own

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-25 Thread Robert L Martin
If you have a SCSI boot drive, and you haven't built SCSI into the kernel, but have it load as a module, you also have to use mkinitrd to create a new initrd.img. -- that would be part of the "other deps" thing and

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-25 Thread Pixel
Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that would be part of the "other deps" thing and besides if you have a SCSI drive and didn't do SCSI in kernel YOU ARE CRAZY!! uh? yet again someone having something against modules? as for me, i don't have the time to build my own kernel (and my hd

[Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-24 Thread sammy williams
Hi, I am a newbie to linux but knows somewhat how to make a linux system work, but I have a problem. I do not know how to "assimilate" compile that is the 2.4 kernel into my linux mandrake system. I burned an image of 2.4 on a cd rom already to do this.Any help is appriciated. (Mandatory Cooker

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-24 Thread Robert L Martin
assuming you have a valid 2.4 kernel and the other deps have been taken care of all you would have to do is 1 copy the kernel file to /boot/ 2 copy the system.map file over 3 tell your boot loader about the new kernel This assumes you are starting from an installed system Robert L Martin

Re: [Cooker] Kernel 2.4 into Mandrake Linux

2001-02-24 Thread Jim Bradley
** Reply to message from Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:31:18 -0500 If you have a SCSI boot drive, and you haven't built SCSI into the kernel, but have it load as a module, you also have to use mkinitrd to create a new initrd.img. assuming you have a valid 2.4 kernel