Hello Glyn, Take a peek at these notes my brother posts. I find it a lot easier to follow them then the man pages!
http://outcast-consultants.redmond.or.us/files/linux.doc Good luck and happy compiling Regards On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote: > Hello! I've been compiling a new kernel (2.2.17 on Potato)to > allow for sound support; I've done it three times and each time > it hasn't worked! The steps I've followed are these (having > unpacked the kernel source in a directory off /usr/local/src..) > > 1. make xconfig set up what I want included in the kernel > 2. make dep > 3. make-kpkg clean > 4. fakeroot /usr/bin/make-kpkg --revision=********* compile the kernel > 5. make modules (tried make-kpkg modules_image here once but it > didn't work) > 6. dpkg -i kernelpackage.deb (this as root) > 7. make modules_install > 8. reboot > > After this process I get lots of messages at boot-up time saying > that the modules have not been found. > > Am I doing this wrong or is there something more I need to do? > > Many thanks in advance. > > Glyn M > > > > -- > ****************************************************** > * "The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. " * > * Douglas Hoftstatder * > ****************************************************** > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls ICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.