On Tuesday 19 July 2005 01:07, James Kosin wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Benham Family wrote: > | Apparently it expects kernel sources in > | /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-i686, but the FC4 install didn't > | put them there. Checking the README file on the first install disk > | I discovered that unlike my previous installation, kernel sources > | were no longer included. I needed to download > | kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm. Looking at the man page for rpm I > | guessed I needed to --install it, but that didn't seem to do > | anything exciting. After some searching I discovered it had put a > | large number of files into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES. My joy was > | short-lived when I found that this was not the desired kernel > | source code, but the source code for a different kernel and a large > | number of .patch files. > | > | How do I get to my desired kernel source from where I am? do I have > | to extract the bzip2'd tarball and apply the patches one by one? in > | some particular order? > | > | cheers, Tim > > Tim, > > 'rpmbuild -bp SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec' from the /usr/src/redhat > directory should do the trick. Thanks James, but that gives me error: Architecture is not included: i386 The CPU in fact is an old 500MHz Celeron. cheers, Tim
