FC3 - no more kernel-source rpm?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Nov 12 17:58:17 UTC 2004


ian douglas wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Core 3, x86 platform (p4 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM)
> 
> Downloaded the DVD iso and mounted it on an ftp server, and burned disc 
> 1 iso for booting my new system with "linux askmethod" to launch an FTP 
> install, and everything went nice and smooth.
> 
> I didn't see a "kernel" option under the development branch when picking 
> my packages, and after installing everything onto the machine, realize 
> that there was no "kernel-source" package as there had been in the past, 
> to recompile my kernel and modules.
> 
> Was this an oversight? Documentation and release notes for Core 3 on 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/ are pretty sparse - seems everything still 
> points to the Core 2 release still.
> 
> Thanks for any tips... if no "kernel-source" package is available, then 
> I'll just hit kernel.org and grab the latest and greatest and hope for 
> the best ;o)

See /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-3/RELEASE-NOTES-x86-en

Paul.




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