Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Create new default link to new source code This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. The NVIDIA driver doesn't install when it wants to compile a

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-09 20:02 +0100, lee wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: Create new default link to new source code This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. The NVIDIA driver

Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
I feel the need to correct a few bad ideas here. On 2008-12-08 21:53 +0100, subscriptions wrote: Download the source code and unpack Note, none but one of the steps below require root privileges if you are a member of the `src' group or perform them below your home directory instead of

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sven Joachim: Create a new config file based on the old one, this will prompt for new configuration settings. Read carefully every question. root# make oldconfig Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Sven Joachim: Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. The copy should be unnecessary as long as the current config is available from

Re: Building kernels the Debian way

2008-12-08 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:45:08 +0100 Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-12-08 23:01 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Sven Joachim: Finally, some good advice. But before this step, you need to copy your old config to linux-2.6.22.1/.config and cd to the kernel directory. The copy