On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Robin Laing wrote: > I am fighting with that now on an FC7 machine. I need "sparse" > installed to get the kernel to rebuild. Tried to install sparse and > it won't. ??????. you don't need sparse to simply rebuild a kernel, at least the last time i looked. you only need that if you want to run extra heavy-duty checking on the source tree. and, in any event, it should be as simple as "yum install sparse", which worked just fine for me. what error message did you get when trying that install? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================