its asked about the same question on last page but i didnt get it:
in /usr/scr/ the only folder is rpm
so aussie said downlod
you need to download and untar a kernel
should i just go download a kernel and use tar...
on it and then the /usr/src/linux/Makefile will show up???

and i tried to download a kernel patch but this message came
tar -jvxf patch-2.4.20.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

bunzip2 -d patch-2.4.20.bz2

This should work. It is not a tar file. It was just bunziped.



Figa

When I try to run make, it says that the command cannot be found. Anyone have any clue as to why it would say this?

Try it as root.

I was logged in as root, that's the problem.

Did you install gnu automake?

Well, I installed all the packages, but I can check again.

Nevermind. It seems that package tool stops working on the D directory at the gcc for java. So, it skips important stuff like make and perl. I'm not sure why it did that, but I fixed it. Thanks for the help anyway.

ok i kno this refers to slackware
:qoute:
If you are using 8.1 or later, open /usr/src/linux/Makefile in a text editor, scroll to line 74 and
uncomment the the line #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot.
For 8.0 you must leave this line commented.
:qoute:
but im running RH 7.2, do i comment or uncomment

ok i kno this refers to slackware
:qoute:
If you are using 8.1 or later, open /usr/src/linux/Makefile in a text editor, scroll to line 74 and
uncomment the the line #export INSTALL_PATH=/boot.
For 8.0 you must leave this line commented.
:qoute:
but im running RH 7.2, do i comment or uncomment

ok i kno this refers to slackware:
but im usuing rh 7.2, do i comment or not?

AWESOME guide btw

You uncomment when your distro keeps the kernel in /boot (most do), slackware used to keep the kernel in / prior to 8.1.

ok guys i did on rh 7.2 but i got errors during the make install how do i verify what kernel i have?

I just installed Slackware 9.0 and I am impressed how easy it is. Most of my boxes run SuSE 8.2, and I really like YaST, but I was unable to get this latest onto my P120/40MB Laptop, so I had to look for soemthing else. Slackware was the winner, because it is the only distro I could find that is easy to install on such old hardware (with diskette and PCMCIA Ethernet, but no CD-ROM). It is possible with others, but in most cases it is a lot of work, and there are normally no clear instructions how to do it in a scenario like mine.
So thanks and compliments to the makers of this nice distro!

However, I have now a little problem compiling my kernel.
When I say
make menuconfig
I get
/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

Now, I do have Ncurses installed, and I even tried ldconfig to make the libraries visible. But ncurses is complex and I may have missed some option or path...
And: On my SuSE boxes there are normally two ncurses packages, ncurses and ncurses-devel. To use make menuconfig the latter has to be installed there. But I can't find a devel package in the slackware distribution...

Any help much appreciated!

Sincerely
Alex