On Friday 22 February 2002 19.50, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
ftp to ftp.suse.com and go into this directory....
ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/update/7.X/kernel
Get the rpm's you need in order to update...including the src rpm. You can practice w/ this. Vanilla kernels are just to much trouble unless you really want to patch up the vanilla src.
A good way to experiment with compiling kernels is to install the binary rpm first and boot it. Then with the corresponding kernel-source.rpm do a make cloneconfig. That will give you a working configuration where you can make adjustments according to your needs. This is what I do, and it saves me a lot of headaches with the more obscure options. If I don't have a clue what an option means I just leave it alone, since I know that the default suse choice works //Anders