Where would have I gone wrong during the install if there is no .config file is /usr/src/linux ? I did make sure that I was viewing hidden files in KDE. TIA CK On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 10:38:56PM -0500, Kelley Spoon wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Porter wrote:
* Kelley Spoon <kspoon@rackspace.com>:
That's right. At least with 6.2, the kernel source is called lx_suse.rpm and is located in the d1 section of the first disk.
lx_suse.rpm just provides the kernel sources. What I'm looking for is the SRPM (has the spec file) so I can rebuild the binary RPMs.
Here's the thing; your question was (partially) answered, but you are looking for the wrong thing. SuSE, unlike Red Hat, does not `build a binary RPM' for the kernel. The breakdown is like so:
lx_suse.rpm contains the full kernel source for the appropriate version. This is not necessarily what you need, however. When YaST (during installation) asks you what kernel type (there are a handful) you need for doing the installation, a .config file *for* that kernel is dropped in /usr/src/linux by default. A standard installation uses the linclude.rpm file instead of lx_suse.rpm, which is the kernel headers.
Your solution is as follows:
1) Find the configuration file, which should be /usr/src/linux/.config, and put it some place safe, like /root
2) Get the 2.2.16 kernel source, perhaps like
cd /usr/src/ rm linux # this is only a symlink; go ahead and remove it wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.16.tar.bz2 # must have wget installed; if you don't have it, you'll love it ;) tar xIvf linux-2.2.16.tar.bz2 # unpacks the kernel source mv linux linux-2.2.16 ln -sf linux-2.2.16 linux # resets the symlink
3) Put the .config file in /usr/src/linux again, and `make oldconfig menuconfig', which will set up the menuconfig options as SuSE had them, and then allow you to add support for your 3ware controller.
4) make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage bzlilo
Reboot, and that should be it. IMNSHO, SuSE's method makes a helluva lot more sense than `building a binary kernel RPM'.
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