upgrading

veeraganesh · 05-27-2001, 03:59 AM

hi
i downloaded the latest version of kernel2.4.2.how i can install it.
i downloaded the version oss sound driver its size is 1.88mb
it is in the windows partion.how i can bring this in to linux partion.

i dont have a zip drive

jharris · 05-27-2001, 08:12 AM

What version of the kernel you running at the moment? If you are changing from 2.2.x to 2.4.x you will probably want to update some of your user space tools that deal with loading modules, the mod-utils I believe (can't remember their proper name - DOH!). The next thing you will want to do is have a look at http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO.html for some better instructions about how to do this - I think this version is still aimed at 2.2 but should be relevant for 2.4, its the same process, just with some different options.

To give you a brief overview - Go to /usr/src, you will probably find your have something like a dir called linux-2.4.2 and a symlink to this dir called linux, remove the symlink

Code:

rm linux

then uncompress your new kernel

Code:

tar xvfz linux-2.4.4.tar.gz

or

Code:

bzip2 -dc linux-2.4.4.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

depending on wether is gzip'd or bzip2'd. This will create a folder called linux that holds the new kernel, you might want to rename this and symlink it, depends if you are ever going to have multiple kernel sources, if you do want to do this then issue a

Code:

mv linux linux-2.4.4 ; ln -s linux-2.4.4 linux

Now change to your new linux directory, run

Code:

make symlinks

then use either

Code:

make menuconfig

or

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make xconfig

depending if you are in X or not. Choose the options you want (the most daunting bit if this is your first attempt), save the config then try a

Code:

make dep

then

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make bzlilo

then

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make modules

then

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make modules_install

and that should be it. You'll need to reboot...

Note that the above assumes that 'make bzlilo' will install your kernel to the correct place, I don't think this is the case if you are using RH, as it will place the new kernel in / not /boot. It also doesn't give you the option to boot the old kernel, this is something you will probably want to be able to do unless you are confident that you havn't missed anything important from your kernel options. Follow the HOWTO if I were you.

As for getting stuff of your Windows partition - just mount it! Assuming that your Win partition in the first partition on the first hard disk try

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /someDir

the '-t vfat' option might not be necessary for you but it never hurts. Assuming that you have vfat support in your kernel then you should now be able to access all your files from /someDir (clearly this needs to exist in the first place!).

HTH

Jamie...