On Friday 14 September 2001 15:13 pm, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:47:46 -0400 Hello Bruce from Lourens:
[snip] " > On Friday 14 September 2001 19.14, Bruce Marshall wrote: " > > In my view, you should go straight to kernel.org and get their " files and " > > do the kernel from scratch. Much better-er. " > " 1) You get all the pieces. This is about the 5th response I've " given to " people who can't make things work with the SuSE pieces. (headers " missing, " etc) " " 2) You can compile it with your own choice of options. " " 3) Learn by doing. [end snip]
A question while this is being discussed - this vanilla vs SuSe thing has been bothering me (does'nt take much ...)
- I installed kernel-source-2.4.7.SuSE-15.i386.rpm. - make cloneconfig (to see what options had been previously installed) - make xconfig, loaded the .config from the above and changed it to suit myself - blah, blah
How would the end result from the above differ from the vanilla install?
Thanks for your time Bruce.
Bye.
If you load and configure from source, I suppose there is no difference.... It's the pre-compiled kernel's that are the problem I think. I have gathered this from others who were unable to install VMware on the higher kernels when pieces of it were missing. +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/14/01 15:42 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle." - William Shakespeare