I want to patch the 2.6.5 kernel to fix a usb problem for my DSL modem. Done lots of searches and read the README under /usr/src/linux...., but it's not completely clear to me yet. Most of the references I found seem out of date, as the step 'make dep' Linux reports as redundant. Built the bzImage OK, but there's no corresponding System.map. Used 'make oldconfig' to configue so not entirely sure whether I need to 'make modules' or not?

Also, running out of space on the / partition already (trying the above 'make modules' fails due to lack of space anyway). Set up a 5G partition as recommended for /, plus 2G for /home and installed the workstation config. Tried using Add/Remove Applications to free space, but that usually generates errors. Maybe 'yum remove app' would be better? Anyone recommend the best way to increase the size of the / partition or maybe add another partition to move /var to for example? The space available on the disk is not adjacent to the / partition.

2.6 kernel install:

as root:
(exactly as shown)

HTH,

Samsara

I usually remove apps using

rpm -e some_app-version.i386.rpm
(if you've got the i386 distribution)

HTH,

Samsara

Thanks for reply Samsara. I can follow what you're telling me, but I don't want to do 'make menuconfig' as I'm not sure how to respond to all the queries. So what I did as root was
at which point I should have a System.map file? But I don't see one anywhere. Also, do I have to
as I don't believe I selected anything to be built as a modules? I did try
in case there were modules that needed to be rebuilt, but that didn't complete due lack of space. Finally, I'd rather do the install manually I've got two working versions of the kernel and I'm concerned the install command will get the versions mixed up.

Don't think you need to do make bzImage and make modules with the new kernel .. I usually do the following when recompiling a new kernel ..

$ make oldconfig
$ make menuconfig (if needed)
$ make
$ make modules_install
$ make install

Grub will be automagically configured too ..