Hello Paul thanx for the quick suggestion , When I tried doing that I was in root login , but nothing got installed in the /usr/src/redhat directory. thanx and regards Kuldeep On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:53:28 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Kuldeep Prakash wrote: > > Hello Paul > > I am feeling little stupid now , I have been trying to build kernel > > for last 2 weeks but am stuck till now. > > I tried the following the steps mentioned at the link > > > http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/steps.html > > but couldn't even pass through the first step mentioned in the doc. > > That is > > ~/.rpmmacros > > couldn't find this file in my installation. > > That's because it's a file you're supposed to create, it's not an > existing file. I think that could be clearer in the instructions though. > > > But than I went to the fourth step > > > > â Install Source > > Use rpm to install the kernel source code. > > rpm -ihv kernel-XXX.src.rpm > > > > but got the error as I had mentioned in my last mail. > > That's because, without the ~/.rpmmacros file, it'll try to install the > source in /usr/src/redhat, which you'd need to be root to be able to do. > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
