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robo555 · 07-04-2001, 07:13 AM

Thanks for the help once more, the CD-ROM's working now, I remember seeing a file that sets what drives to mount automatically, but I forgot where it was...would be nice to mount the CD-ROM and floppy on startup. And learn how to make a new folder...

Had a go with configuring the new kernel 2.4, using make config...did what the readme said, in Slackware, they have a folder/shortcut at /usr/src/linux that goes to /usr/src/linux-2.2.14, and I tar my 25MB .tar.gz kernel file as told, the file list flashed by, and thought that it would overwrite the linux symbolic link, and went into /usr/src/linux and opened up the README just to make sure, surely enough the readme mentioned 2.4

So I've made the symbolic links as told, got rid of the .o files, make config, make dep, etc, and then typed in the magical make zImage, and gcc flashed by, but it seems to be compiling files from the /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 folder! Have I spent all that time configuring the old kernel? And after some long minutes I got a compiling error, which was kinda annoying...

So with the default tar zxpvf linux-2.4.6.tar.gz over write the symbolic linux folder? Those files had got to decompressed somewhere right? Why did gcc started compiling the 2.2 files, think I might have just screwed something up. gcc never finished compiling the image anyway with that error.

I'm soo not going through make config again, gonna use menuconfig next time.

Oh yeah, I did managed to get startx to work, got me into KDE, unfortunately I don't think I selected yes when the install asked me about a "mouse server", and I'm not sure where the mouse package is located ont the CD...

I'm getting there...slowly

07-04-2001, 07:13 AM	#8
robo555 Member (8 bit) Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 193	Thanks for the help once more, the CD-ROM's working now, I remember seeing a file that sets what drives to mount automatically, but I forgot where it was...would be nice to mount the CD-ROM and floppy on startup. And learn how to make a new folder... Had a go with configuring the new kernel 2.4, using make config...did what the readme said, in Slackware, they have a folder/shortcut at /usr/src/linux that goes to /usr/src/linux-2.2.14, and I tar my 25MB .tar.gz kernel file as told, the file list flashed by, and thought that it would overwrite the linux symbolic link, and went into /usr/src/linux and opened up the README just to make sure, surely enough the readme mentioned 2.4 So I've made the symbolic links as told, got rid of the .o files, make config, make dep, etc, and then typed in the magical make zImage, and gcc flashed by, but it seems to be compiling files from the /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 folder! Have I spent all that time configuring the old kernel? And after some long minutes I got a compiling error, which was kinda annoying... So with the default tar zxpvf linux-2.4.6.tar.gz over write the symbolic linux folder? Those files had got to decompressed somewhere right? Why did gcc started compiling the 2.2 files, think I might have just screwed something up. gcc never finished compiling the image anyway with that error. I'm soo not going through make config again, gonna use menuconfig next time. Oh yeah, I did managed to get startx to work, got me into KDE, unfortunately I don't think I selected yes when the install asked me about a "mouse server", and I'm not sure where the mouse package is located ont the CD... I'm getting there...slowly