i noticed kernel.org has released 2.4.33 and i was wanting to compile this to replace the stock bare.i 2.4.31 kernel that comes with slackware-10.2

i have an extra disk partition for testing things out like this, i usually do a clean & bare-bones install of slackware, and test out software on before compiling in to my main install.

what i done and failed at was compiling 2.4.33 i ran the following commands:

make oldconfig

make

make dep

make modules

make modules_install


it would install and boot but i think make oldconfig was not correctly setting the configuration for make to do its job correctly, so i would get serous errors during boot about missing modules,

i never compiled a kernel before and would like to just replace 2.4.31 with 2.4.33 to run exactly like Pat V, compiled it.

the only third party modules i think i would have to re-compile is alsa, and i wonder if there are any others.

If you just want to learn how to build a kernel, then Kwan Lowe's
Kernel Rebuild Guide is what I'd suggest you read.

If, on the other hand, you just want a Slackware generic kernel
(why would you?), then you can untar the source of 2.4.33 and use
your present kernel's .config file to run "make oldconfig".

The instructions for kernel building are included in the kernel
source of every kernel, written by Linus Torvalds, in the README file.

I'm a little rusty on 2.4 kernels, but I see you did not do a "make clean"
after "make dep" or a "make bzImage" so you don't have a kernel image to
put in /boot anyway.

Read those instructions -- Kwan Lowe's or Linus Torvalds -- both work.

thanks Chinaman, that gave me a better perspective, i did find make oldconfig was not configuring modules as expected - (could be my fault) but i unpacked a clean kernel source and used make xconfig to load the existing config in /boot that it worked correctly (should be the same as make oldconfig) i dont know why make oldconfig was giving me problems and i guess i will never figure it out, but i did get 2.4.33 installed and booting correctly...

bash-3.1$ uname -a
Linux LiGNUnux 2.4.33 #1 Sun Aug 13 12:01:16 CDT 2006 i686 unknown unknown GNU/L
inux