Hello, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> I never needed to compile the kernel until now. I have to patch the > kernel, and I would like to know what libraries, packages, programs > I need to have on my machine (except the kernel source an headers) > in order to do this? Well, patching the kernel is virtually trivial. - unpack kernel sources to any directory (I usually do /usr/local/src) - cd to that directory - if the patch is gzipped do: zcat <patch-file> | patch -p0 - else do: patch -p0 < <patch-file> - compile kernel as usual If this sounds to vague, there's excellent help available in http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html > I run potato 2.2r3 stable, and at isnstall time I mostly skipped > development packages, but I do not want to just install loads of C > development packages which i do not need... As to the programms you need, I think `apt-get install kernel-package bin86` should install all the necessary packages (minus the actual kernel sources). See /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README on how to use kernel-package (skip to the part "For the Brave and impatient") > Is there a simple way to prepare myself for this event (in addition > to lots of coffeine)? Good luck, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
