Re: Linux-2.6.5-1.358 and Fedora

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 20:17, Johnson, Richard wrote:
> In order to use Linux version 2.6.x, I installed the
> stuff that came with the "Red Hat Fedora(tm) Linux 2"
> book. I even bought a new hard disk so that it wouldn't
> break anything I have on my other disks.
> 
> It installed, but I needed to set up a module development

.... which is already shipped in /lib

> environment so I attempted to compile the kernel with
> the provided files.
> 
> First I copied a .config file from /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/configs
> that came with the other software. Then I did:
> 
> make oldconfig
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make modules_install

well the Makefile has "custom" added to the version so that you don't
overwrite the working kernel version but install a second one. Did you
by chance manually edit the Makefile to remove the "custom" ?

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