Messages in this thread | | | From | (Edmund Bacon) | Subject | Re: version mismatch in modules | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:58:23 GMT |
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 13:06:44 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi, this is the first time we try to compile a kernel. >We are running a Red Hat 6.0 - 2.2.5-15 and we'll like to upg. to 2.2.12 >PII 350 - 64Mb >3com 59x >intel 740 video card (with it's Xfree86 installed) > >This is what we did : >- We got the sources >- unpacked in usr/src/linux This may be where I think you went wrong (slightly ...) If you installed the kernel sources from the RH CD you need to - get the sources - cd /usr/src - rm linux (this is a link to linux-2.2.5) - now unpack the sources, and continue on... I like to: mv linux linux-2.2.12 #eg ln -s linux-2.2.12 linux >- make mrproper ^^^-- Hmm... doesn't this erase .config (your old config)? >- make oldconfig If make mrproper removes .config, what does make oldconfig do if there is no .config? >- make dep >- make zlilo ("error 2, system is too big, try make bzimage") >- make bzlilo (it works) >- make modules >- make modules_install > >reboot >
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