Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:22:04 -0800 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org> Message-ID: <20010315212204.S8514@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: Fwd: Re: [suse-sparc] One big thank you
* Ron Nelson <rnelson@Kennesaw.edu> [010315 19:06]:
> Thanks for the reply on the kernel, and yes I would like to upgrade to a
> 2.4.2 but do not even know how to begin, I would also hope that it would
> incluse scsi support, any help would be appriciated
First, off, I'd recommend using a kernel form CVS rather than the stock
2.4.2 kernel... instructions on getting it are at http://vger.samba.org/
Once you have that, you configure your kernel with one of the possible
methods... I tend to use "make menuconfig".
Once you're done with that, "make dep", then "make clean", then "make
vmlinux" to build the kernel. Finally, a "make modules" and a "make
modules_install" to build and install the kernel modules.
Copy the "vmlinux" and "System.map" files to your /boot directory (I
usually add the version number to both... like "vmlinuz-2.4.2"). Modify
your silo.conf file to reflect this change... be sure to leave a way to
boot using your old (current) kernel just in case.
There are several documents out there to describe portions of this
procedure... some stuff in the "Documentation" directory inside the
kernel tree (see the "kbuild" directory under that). You'll also
undoubtedly find info here:
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Good luck. :)
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