Hi there,

as FC4 (I think true for any FC) does not come with NTFS support. As I have a NTFS partition on my PC, I need to recompile the kernel. I know how to do it the 'dirty way', but I would like to do it the distro compliant way.......

Here what I thought I need to do (as I am writing this, you can assume it is not working :-)):
Download the kernel.src.rpm and install it
Changing the SPEC flie slightly (disabeling the smp and xen kernel)
rpmbuild -bp --target i686 <spec-file>
go to the source path 'make gconfig' and configure the kernel the way I need
make bzImage
make modules
rpmbuild -bi --short-circuit --target .....
and than the command to build the actual rpm (not sure about this as I never reached this!

Doing the rpmbuild -bi gives me error messages:

Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.44076
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd kernel-2.6.11
+ LANG=C
+ export LANG
+ unset DISPLAY
+ cd linux-2.6.11
+ /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.11
0 blocks
find: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/usr/lib: No such file or directory
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-compress
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-static-archive /usr/bin/strip
+ /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/brp-strip-comment-note /usr/bin/strip /usr/bin/objdump
Processing files: kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found by glob: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/*-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/kernel
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/build
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/source
Processing files: kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
Fehler: File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-i686
Processing files: kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root


RPM build errors:
File not found by glob: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/*-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/System.map-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/boot/config-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/kernel
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/build
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root/source
File not found: /var/tmp/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-root/usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.root-i686

Any ideas? (For sure I just could do the make install, but that would be the dirty way, isn't it :-))

Regards
McBrain

i would suggest an easy way out

linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net

regards

I think that is the current kernel driver. So if I want to mount a NTFS file system, I need to change the kernel!

But anyhow, I know how to solve THAT problem, I was more interested in understanding what is the way to recompile the kernel using the rpmbuild command, but still customize the kernel!

Thanks & regards
McBrain

no that ntfs module can be included in ur present kernel

also after u inastall the kernel source,then to compile that is same as compiing a normal kernel
u should use the rpm build command after u are sure that the kernel u compiled is fine for u

regards