kernel compiling advise: FC3/adding source

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Mon Feb 14 18:52:46 UTC 2005


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Paul M. Bucalo wrote:

> I have removed all *but* the most recent kernels from my laptop. This
> was before I found out about Fedora's policy of not providing kernel-
> source as an RPM. I now need the kernel-source for 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 to
> compile some drivers, so which would be best for me now:
> 
> 1) Install the original kernel that comes with the FC3 distro, boot into
> it before compiling against the 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel.src.rpm, or
> 
> 2) Compile against the 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 kernel.src.rpm right now and
> just rename the resulting kernel?

Please - not this thread again!

What driver do you need to compile/install?

All the required include/build files for compiling extra kernels are
already part of kernel.i686.rpm

Satish




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