<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Geoff,<br> <br> If you're using RHEL4, Redhat don't make a kernel-source RPM for RHEL4... instead, you have to make your own kernel source tree from the .src.rpm file for your kernel. I got the below stuff from a website somewhere - I'd post the URL to it but I can't find it, so here's the text (apologies and thanks to the author). Anyway, hope it helps... ignore the stuff about NVidia drivers:<br> <br> <b> <h3>So, you need the kernel-source for your FC3/RHEL-4 distro?</h3> </b>These steps should save you some time, trouble and many headaches. In the even that you neglected to read the release notes for FC3...eh-hem...the FC project has decided not to supply the kernel-source in order to prevent redundancy. You see, the kernel-source tree can be extracted from the kernel-*.src.rpm if you absolutely need it. In my case, I needed to supply the --kernel-source-path when (re)installing the lastest NVIDIA drivers (more on NVIDIA drivers below...) after rebooting with a new kernel. So, here are the steps that you <em>should</em> follow in order to extract the kernel-source tree from the kernel-*.src.rpm:<br> <b>Step (1).</b> Go find the kernel-*.src.rpm (#> locate kernel-*.src.rpm) or download it from the Internets. For instance, you could get it from <a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/">here</a>.<br> <b>Step (2).</b> Now you must install the rpm. As root, execute <font color="#3300cc"> #> rpm -Uvh kernel-*.src.rpm</font><br> <b>Step (3).</b> The previous step should have created a kernel-2.6.spec (or similarly kernel-2.4.spec if you're still on that kernel) file in the /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ directory. You must build the rpm against this .spec file to get the binaries and source.<br> As root, execute <font color="#3300cc">#> rpmbuild -bp --target=noarch /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.6.spec</font><br> <b>Step (4).</b> Create the necessary symbolic links for your directory tree:<br> <font color="#3300cc">#> cd /usr/src<br> #> ln -s redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/ linux<br> #> ln -s redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/ linux-2.6.10</font><br> <b>Step (5).</b> Now we need to make the new .config files:<br> <font color="#3300cc">#> cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.10<br> #> make mrproper<br> #> cp /usr/src/linux-2.6.10/configs/kernel-2.6.10-i686.config /usr/src/linux-2.6.10/.config<br> #> make oldconfig<br> #> make menuconfig<br> #> make</font><br> Now, you have a kernel-source tree under /usr/src/linux-2.6.10 just like you would if you had been supplied the kernel-source in the first place. Note that the kernel numbers (i.e. 2.6, 2.6.10, etc.) and system architecture numbers (i.e. i686) may be different for your situation. Replace with correct numbers/information where necessary. I was able to install the new NVIDIA drivers by executing:<br> <font color="#3300cc">#> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-###-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-2.6.10</font><br> <br> <br> Geoff Sweet wrote: <blockquote cite="mid56CBB439E3ED3F4CA87A3BAB00075F544B432C@exch1.corp.wildtangent.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name="GENERATOR"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="464260102-06122006">I'm trying to install kernel source from up2date... but help me out here, am I going insane? It is installed right? That is what the devel packages are right?</span></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><span class="464260102-06122006"></span></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">[gsweet@prodtool3 Dell_Open_Manage]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel<br> kernel-smp-2.6.9-5.EL<br> kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL<br> kernel-2.6.9-34.EL<br> kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80<br> kernel-2.6.9-5.EL<br> kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL<br> kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL<br> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL<br> kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL<br> kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL<br> kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"><font face="Arial" size="2">I'm trying to install Dell's Open Manage 5.0 onto this system and it isn't finding the kernel-source. I'm either totally missing this or I need to quit my job as a Linux admin. </font></span></div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"></span> </div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"></span> </div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Geoff Sweet</font></span></div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"><font face="Arial" size="2">Internet Operations Engineer</font></span></div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"><font face="Arial" size="2">WildTangent Inc.</font></span></div> <div><span class="464260102-06122006"><font face="Arial" size="2"><a href="http://www.wildgames.com">http://www.wildgames.com</a></font></span></div> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>