Which is the Kernel?

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 01:19 PM

I have followed the instructions described here but there was a file 2.4.x-mdk and that confused me a lot...

My distro is Mandrake 9.2

Can you help me?

acid_kewpie · 07-12-2004, 02:33 PM

what file? where?

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 03:40 PM

/usr/src

There

XavierP · 07-12-2004, 03:47 PM

2.4-mdk-xx is your kernel - the xx stands for numbers which change (eg 2.4.26).

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 03:54 PM

So if I compile my new kernel, will I need to rename it to something like 2.6-mdk-xx?

XavierP · 07-12-2004, 03:58 PM

No - it should already be called that.

acid_kewpie · 07-12-2004, 03:59 PM

you really need to ask well backed up and informative questions, we really haven't got much of a clue what you're actually trying to do. Making posts of more than 30 words is normally a good place to start

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 04:05 PM

I am trying to compile a kernel and the names that Mandrake uses are TOO confusing...

This is my first Kernel Compilation.

XavierP · 07-12-2004, 04:11 PM

Believe it or not, it's not that confusing:
2.6.3-4mdk - is my kernel. The 2.6.3 is the kernel version as given by www.kernel.org. The mdk means it's a kernel tweaked and changed by Mandrake to run on Mandrake systems. Any numbers after that are just version numbers of the Mandy version.

A plain kernel will just be 2.6.x or whatever the versions are up to.

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 04:15 PM

So my new kernel will be just 2.6.1 right?

XavierP · 07-12-2004, 04:28 PM

Assuming you d/led it from www.kernel.org and not from RPMDrake/Urpmi, yes.

LinuxSeeker · 07-12-2004, 04:33 PM

It is linux-2.6.1.tar.gz right? Should I had downloaded the bzip2 file?

acid_kewpie · 07-12-2004, 04:56 PM

doesn't matter, they will have identical contents, you'd just decompress it with "tar zxvf" instead of "tar jxvf"

acid_kewpie · 07-12-2004, 04:57 PM

but also why are you downloading a kernel that's now out of date? either get 2.6.7 or 2.4.27, as they are the newest in each current branch

LinuxSeeker · 07-13-2004, 05:02 AM

I knew that someone was going to ask this question sooner or later...

The actual reason why I am installing an old Kernel, is that the instructions I have in my mother tongue describe a 2.6.1 Kernel installation...