read faq, cant install kernel source

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:01 +0100, mcarp wrote:
> ok, im here:  [url=http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=1]http://fcp.homelinux.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=1[/url]
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> i did this:
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>     up2date --get-source kernel
> 
> i wasnt sure about 2. Install kernel-<version>.src.rpm (given the default RPM configuration, the files this package contains will be written to /usr/src/redhat/)
> and it was suggested i do this:
> 
>      yum install kernel-source
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> which i did.  now im supposed to:
>     cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/
>     rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel.spec
> 
> SPECS is there, but its empty, and all the dirs under
> /usr/src are empty
> 
> what did i miss?
> 
> 

If you are using FC3, kernel-source has been removed.
You need to get the SRPMS package from
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/
kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.src.rpm  or the appropriate one for your kernel.






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