Jay Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 Hi, I recently started running Mandrake 9.0 and I don't know how to recompile the kernel. After you finish laughing at the newbie, could somebody please give me instructions on how to do this ? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 Why do you want to upgrade? Mandrake 9 has a new kernel. Are you going to upgrade to 2.5.x? All 2.5.x kenels are development releases and are not stable. Anyway you need to download the source package for their webpage. The tar ball has a README with some instruction on compiling the kernel. Check out The Linux Kernel HOWTO for more info on this topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted December 25, 2002 Author Share Posted December 25, 2002 Thanks I'm not looking to "upgrade". When I installed Mandrake, I somehow got a kernel that is newer than the header files for it, and I can't install VMware for Linux because of that :cry: I asked around, and was told that I need to recompile the kernel :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvo Posted December 25, 2002 Share Posted December 25, 2002 Newest kernel is 2.4.20 not 2.4.19 You can download the new kernels always at http://www.kernel.org Most likely you can just patch yours as it is only one version difference. You can find more on compiling a kernel at http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html What I would do is that once you typed in 'make xconfig' that you load your previous settings from the kernel source used by Mandrake's installation. (should be located at /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/configs, I believe) Then just change the things you want to change. I still recommend just downloading the patch though :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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