Hard Drives and Kernal Source

[William Hooper]

Krikket said:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, William Hooper wrote:
>> Krikket said:
>>
>> > And the really embarassing question...  Does anyone have any thoughts
>> on
>> > how to install the kernal source?  apt/synaptic doesn't seem to have
>> it,
>>
>> Are you looking to build your own kernel or kernel modules?  You need
>> the
>> kernel-source package.
>
> I'm trying to get the alsa drivers running on my laptop, so I can have
> sound.  The RPM doesn't seem to be cutting it for me, and the chipset is
> definately supported...

Then you definitely want the kernel-source package:
[whooper at kenny whooper]$ sudo /usr/sbin/up2date --dry-run kernel-source
Password:

Fetching package list for channel: fedora-core-1-local...

Fetching http://snowball/fedora/1/i386/os/headers/header.info...
########################################

Fetching package list for channel: updates-released-local...

Fetching http://snowball/fedora/updates/1/i386/headers/header.info...
########################################

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: fedora-core-1-local...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: updates-released-local...

Fetching rpm headers...

Name                                    Version        Rel
----------------------------------------------------------

The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:

Name                                    Version        Rel  Reason
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
kernel-source                           2.4.22         1.2135.nptlPkg
name/pattern


The following packages you requested are already updated:
kernel-source
[whooper at kenny whooper]$

Notice that be default the package is skipped so you must use "-f" with
up2date.

>> Are you wanting to look at the patches that Red Hat has added to the
>> kernel.org kernel?  Then you need the kernel src.rpm package.
>>
>> > and the add/install program feature is just broken..
>>
>> Without more detail, this is a completely worthless statement.
>
> If the system gave me any useful error messages, I would have included
> them.  It doesn't.  I get a generic "install failed" type of message with
> no rhyme, reason, or anything else of use.  I felt it wasn't necessary to
> spell that out, because I understood that it was generally understood that
> the add/remove features is pretty severely broken in Fedora...  (Badly
> enough that I don't know anyone who's succesfully installed *anything*
> using this method.)

On the other hand, I see no showstopper bugs in bugzilla saying it doesn't
work at all.

What output do you get when you run redhat-config-packages from a
terminal?  What version of redhat-config-packages are you running?

-- 
William Hooper