On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Mark A. Bialik wrote: > everything's been going well. Here's my one problem. I selected to install > the kernel-source for 2.0.29 and 2.0.30 from my new 1.3.1 cd using dselect. > Afterwards, it shows that it was installed, but my /usr/src directory is > still empty. > > #1 Where is this source?
It should be in /usr/src. You must have done something wrong with dselect or dpkg. To debug, try going to your kernel file and doing "dpkg -i <file name>.deb" (The deb is there to remind you that dpkg doesn't work on tgz files.) > #2 Do I still compile using the make config like before? You can, but as someone mentioned, you can also use debian's program make-kpkg. By using the debian program, you can make a .deb file to be installed with dpkg or dselect. > #3 If I just pull the kernel source via ftp, can I compile like before > (slackware) or do I risk damaging any of Debian's package management features? You can, as I've done many times before. I don't believe there are any packages that depend on a kernel source, so making the deb is only advantageous if you have a reason for controlling kernel's with dselect. Good luck, Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
