Not to be contrary but a wanted to mention a few things. Firstly, if this is your first kernel build make CERTAIN you have a back up and setup lilo so you can use it to boot the old kernel should something go wrong. Do THIS before deleting your old sources and before installing the new image. I only mention this cause I think it's dangerous to be fooling around with kernel installations for the first time without taking precautions and no one mentioned backing up the old image before installing the new one. *OR* you could use make bzlilo instead of make zImage and this will copy the old kernel (and System.map) to vmlinuz.old, and you can set lilo up to give that as a lilo prompt option at boot time. If zImage does this as well, I apologize. I always use 'make bzlilo'. All Michael's instructions are right..but I think you should just use YaST to upgrade your kernel off SuSE's ftp site. ( You can do this right, they have an RPM for 2.0.35 up there, I believe. Also you asked for the EASIEST WAY and to me this *is* the easiest). I haven't been to the site in a while so if I'm mistaken here, please ignore. I thought someone said it was up there. And THEN after all this play with building a kernel once you already are out of the water. This will give you trial runs and put you in a position where you aren't prey to any mistakes should -heaven forbid- something go wrong. Note: you can make a disk to test the new kernel rather than installing it as well with the make bzdisk command. P.S. it's also a good idea to install the documentation so you have the HOW-TOs on board. There's a nice Kernel howto in there that can give you safe reference material in the future as most of all that's been said is right there in easy to grasp form. If all this sounds totally idiotic, just ignore me. I am prone to err. :-) Michael On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
Don't take this as a lecture, but if you haven't compiled a kernel, you need to learn. Get the sources for 2.0.35 from your favorite kernel.org mirror, or off my news page if you have bzip2 installed, then mv it to /usr/src and follow these steps: 1. rm linux 2. tar -zxvf linux-2.0.35.tar.gz OR bunzip2 linux-2.0.35.tar.bz2 tar -xvf linux-2.0.35.tar 3. mv linux linux-2.0.35 4. ln -s linux-2.0.35 linux 5. cd linux-2.0.35 6. make mrproper 7. make config (or make menuconfig or make xconfig) 8. make dep 9. make clean 10. make zImage 11. make modules 12. make modules_install 13. cp arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz 14. /sbin/lilo 15. reboot
bam! you've upgraded your kernel. It's not rocket science, and it's something you need to be comfortable doing. Hope this helps.
Aaron Seelye wrote:
What is the easiest way for me to update my 2.0.33 kernel to the 2.03.35 kernel? Also, where are some good sites that cover kernel updating (preferably dealing with suse)?
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