Proper way to install new kernel 2.6.11.7 into Fedora Core 3(solved)!!!

[Rick Stevens]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>--- Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>>Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Dear all,
>>>>>   I was afraid to update to a newer kernel
>>
>>with
>>
>>>all
>>>
>>>>>the messages that the system won't boot but I
>>
>>am
>>
>>>>>taking a risk.  I have downloaded
>>>
>>>2.6.11.7.tar.bz2 and
>>>
>>>>>extracted it.  I read the README and have done
>>>
>>>the
>>>
>>>>>following:
>>>>>make mrproper
>>>>>make xconfig
>>>>>make dep
>>>>>make clean
>>>>>make bzImage
>>>>>
>>>>>What else do i need to do?  I am still running
>>>>>2.6.9-1.667.  I need to manually edit
>>>
>>>/boot/grub.conf
>>>
>>>>>to put the new kernel. 
>>>>>What advice can you give me?
>>>>>
>>>>>Do I need to do a modules install? or something
>>>
>>>like
>>>
>>>>>that.
>>>>>
>>>>>I appreciate all the help that you can provide.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You don't need the "make dep" or "make clean"
>>>
>>>steps with 2.6 kernels.
>>>
>>>>Simply:
>>>>
>>>>    make mproper
>>>>    make xconfig
>>>>    make bzImage
>>>>    make modules
>>>>    make modules_install
>>>>    make install
>>>>
>>>>That should do it all for you.  Double check
>>
>>your
>>
>>>/boot/grub/grub.conf
>>>
>>>>file to verify that the new kernel got
>>
>>installed.
>>
>>>>Of course, why don't you just "yum update
>>
>>kernel"
>>
>>>and use the
>>>
>>>>precompiled binary 2.6.11 kernel for FC3 from
>>
>>the
>>
>>>official repositories?
>>>
>>>I can't speak for Antonio; maybe he has plunged
>>
>>into
>>
>>>Fedora and hasn't 
>>>mastered the rpm and yum commands. (/I/ still have
>>>trouble with them, 
>>>sometimes.) But I have heard that compiling from
>>>source gives you an 
>>>application, or a kernel, optimized for your
>>
>>machine
>>
>>>in a way no binary 
>>>can match. Is that true? If it is, then those
>>>instructions will prove 
>>>very valuable.
>>
>>I agree with that part(But I have heard that
>>compiling
>>from
>>
>>>source gives you an 
>>>application, or a kernel, optimized for your
>>
>>machine
>>
>>>in a way no binary 
>>>can match.).  I have Mplayer-1.0pre7 installed via
>>
>>by compiling and xine with rpm.  I do know how to
>>work
>>out dependencies and I can resolve most of the
>>problems but they say that a compiled kernel will
>>work
>>better than the stock kernel provided by Fedora on
>>our
>>machines.  I also want to learn more about linux and
>>compiling the kernel.  
>>
>>
>>>Then, too, there's the matter of wanting to load
>>>into the kernel certain 
>>>non-standard modules, and even to run the kernel
>>
>>in
>>
>>>four-stack mode for 
>>>some purposes. (NDISwrapper springs to mind.) I'd
>>>like a quick how-to on 
>>>that alone, or at least a link to some clear
>>>instructions.
>>>
>>>Temlakos
>>>
>>>-- 
>>>fedora-list mailing list
>>>fedora-list at redhat.com
>>>To unsubscribe:
>>>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>>>
>>
>>__________________________________________________
>>Do You Yahoo!?
>>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
>>protection around 
>>http://mail.yahoo.com 
>>
>>-- 
>>fedora-list mailing list
>>fedora-list at redhat.com
>>To unsubscribe:
>>http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks to Rick, Temlakos, Kam and Robert for their
> kind help, I am now running 2.6.11.7.  I never thought
> I could do it.  Thanks for helping out.
> 
> [student at rio ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.11.7
> [student at rio ~]$

That's what the list is for, Antonio.  Glad to hear you got it working.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
-                                                                    -
-           Denial.  It ain't just a river in Egypt anymore!         -
----------------------------------------------------------------------