First,
Inventory every piece of hardware on your system. Especially your NIC. These
can be a pain in the ass if you do not know the exact module you need. If
you have a 3com card, add all the 3com modules to the kernel. (I think a lot
of them use the same module anyway) Do an 'lsmod' and see what modules your
current kernel is using. (In fact, if you do have a 3com card I suggest
downloading the source from 3Com for the 3c90x module and compile it
yourself, then aliases it in /etc/conf.modules)
I compile everything into the kernel as prefer not to compile as modules.
You can usally get a 2.4 kernel with 3com, Adaptec SCSI, Megaraid, and sound
into a kernel under 700k.
I would recommend not messing with patches, download a fresh tarball of the
kernel, unpack it into /usr/src/linux-<version>, symbolically link 'linux'
(ln -s /usr/src/linux-<version> /usr/src/linux) to this directory, and
follow the steps to compile. The docs with 2.4 are very thorough.
The key is to know your hardware before hand, and not get impatient and read
the help on all the config options, the defaults are correct for maybe 80%
of the options for most people, and there are many you can omit.
Hope this helps,
CC
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Hollow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 1:19 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kernel upgrade or recompile from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0
I'm a complete newbie on recompilation but I need to either patch or most
probably upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0 since I do not have USB support (I want
to buy an Epson stylus to go on this port) and no support for SCSI devices I
want to buy a CD-RW. I've downloaded the source for 2.4.0 but I have some
questions.
I assume I cannot patch things that are missing completely from 2.2.5, in
from 2.4.0 source?
Will gcc version supplied with RH6.0 be OK to compile 2.4.0 source?
Is it possible in recompiling to take the bits you want to keep in the
existing kernel? I'm worried I may not check a box in Xconfig and lose
somthing that works fine now.
If I put in SCSI support as Modules how do set these up so they run
automatically when required by the hardware/software? The pppd at the moment
which loads when required on my system.
Finally any advice on software for toasting and not coastin CDs would be
nice.
Hope this all makes sense. NH.
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