On Fri December 5 2003 02:40 pm, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 11:17 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Fri December 5 2003 01:42 pm, David Herman wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2003 09:42 am, Bruce Marshall wrote: -------------snip----------------
One question, whats the diference between a kernel-source-2.4.*.rpm and a kernel-source-2.4.*.src.rpm (rpm vs src.rpm)
The .rpm would (I assume) contain the compiled kernel which would be placed in /boot.
I thought it was the k_deflt.rpm, k_athlon.rpm etc that contained the kernel that was installed in /boot, from viewing kernel-source-2.4.*.rpm i saw no indication of files being installed in /boot
The src.rpm would contain the sources for the kernel and would be placed in / usr/src.
I only use vanilla kernels from www.kernel.org so I'm not all sure about the above but that's the way it should be.
I'm only about 9 megs from having the kernel-source-2.4.21-151.i586.src.rpm d'loaded and I installed kernel-source-2.4.21-151.i586.rpm this morning so I guess I'll compare the 2 archives in a few minutes.
BTW since you mentioned that you compile your own vanilla kernel, do you have any tips about switching from the susified version to the vanilla version?
Not much to say, just do it...... The only problems you will have include: 1) You'll lose some of the nice graphics at boot time... (but then, if you're booting enough that you miss this stuff, then you need to think about why you are booting so much :-) 2) You'll need to come up with a /usr/src/linux/.config file that either mirrors what SUSE gave you or better... make your own. If you make your own, you can eliminate a ton of stuff you don't need and bake into the kernel those things that you do. But basically it is easy and you can still retain your original SuSE kernel if you do it right... -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 12/05/03 14:49 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "The older you get, the better you realize you were."