Hi everybody,

Can you give me some links where to find docs/howtos/guides about how to compile a new kernel for Mandrake 9.1?

Thanks in advance.

The linux documentation project is always a good place to start. But you should have this on your mandrake system already (at least it's on my system at home).

locate -u
locate -i howto | grep -i kernel

John

thanks for the help, but that's a general site and I'm interested in finding something dedicated to mandrake, something like that : http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/index.html#ku
as I remember from my days on red hat there to compile a new kernel without conflictiong with the existing ones you had to modify the sources (I don't remember where) and add to the actual kernel version you're compiling a suffix (like -today and so on) which permitted you to create a different entry for the kernel modules (but you had to use the same kernel source with the installed one to avoid conflicts with kernel headers and so on) named /modules/2.4.2-22-today (for example) made for your custom version. this way you still have the original kernel version with their modules and your custom one with your custom modules.
this kind of aspects interests me in Mandrake and if there are something esle to do to install the new version of kernel.
I think that now I was more clear in what I'm looking for.

if you are using the kernel sources provided with mandrake, the suffix business will be taken care of for you. The default extraversion is custom, and you can change it in teh makefile. After conpiling everything and doing make install, make sure lilo.conf is all right - for me, it is inevitably screwed up and have to fix lilo.conf manually.

If you want mandrake specific kernel compile guides, the documentation available at mandrakelinux.com does a pretty good job.