I have 5 CD's for Red Hat 7.3. 1-3 are install CD's, and 4,5 are SRPMS.

I installed 1-3 to get a running 7.3 system, and now need to compile some modules. The /usr/src directory is empty (just some directories like redhat and subdirs under that but no files) and so I went to the SRPMS directories on CD's 4 and 5 to add the Kernel packages. (rpm -iv kernel-2.4.18-3.src.rpm)

Now I have a /usr/src/redhat directory with BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS subdirs. In SOURCES there are a group of *.patch files, but I cannot find any include, source directories or *.h and *.c files anywhere under /usr/src. I was hoping to find a /usr/src/linux/include or something like that with lots of *.h files etc.

I am obviously missing something - can anyone tell me what?

THANKS!!!!

As far as I remember, the kernel source is included in one of the
first 3 CDs. Since I have only 3 CDs, I am not sure how the s/w
layout is in 5 CD set.

I'm beginning to think that I have to download the source for the 2.4.18 kernel from ftp.kernel.org and then go from there. In that case, I'm guessing that the .patch files on the RedHat 7.3 CD are applied against the standard Linux to get the RedHat version.

Anyone with knowledge of how this works, please let me know.

/usr/src/redhat is RPM build dir

also i recommend that you us kernel 2.4.19, not 2.4.18

I have it. On CD #2, there is a kernel-source-2.4.18-3.i386.rpm which is installable from the RPM GUI. That has what I needed.

Strange though that the package on CD #5 looks to be the same sort of thing, but actually turns out to be a bunch of patch files, probably for the purpose I mentioned earlier.

Now I can recompile my PCMCIA modules.

Thanks :-)