Hi all, This will be the first time i'm compiling a kernel, on this box, scsi troubles me: PIII 800 mb asus p3c intel 820 chipset 258 MB Rimm memory 800Mhz scsi card 2940 U2W ( aic7*** i suppose ) sda = 18 GB disk 10000rpm full windows sdb = 18 GB disk 10000rpm full suse 7 ( stable ) ext2 sdc = 18 GB disk 10000rpm full RH7 sdd = 36 GB disk 10000rpm full SuSE 7 ( test ) rsfs sound = sb PCI 128 cdrom = plextor scsi 40x cdwriter = plextor 12/4/32 video = Geforce DDR scanner = snapscan 1212 U USB mouse = Intellieye KB = logitech ( french kb ) Being off computer world since university (+/- 25 years ), i've been working very hard to catch up my delay in the linux world ( one year (in my spare time)), having only used Win (word&excell) before. I test a lot of things on sdd and i have a SuSE for working on sdb The "last" thing to do now : compiling a kernel ( downloaded 2.4.0 + suse 24 patch.gz ). This is what I'm going to do : 1. upgrading to modutil 2.4.0 2. make cloneconfig of actual kernel ( 2.2.16 ) and print it out 3. cd /usr/src and rm linux 4. tar zxpvf linux-2.4.0.SuSE-14.tgz Question : can I apply the patch file from here; if yes how ? 5. mv linux linux-2.4.0.SuSE-14; ln -s linux-2.4.0.SuSE-14 linux 6. make xconfig, looking around and matching the previous cloneconfig file Question : including reiserfs in the kernel ?? I suppose so. 7. make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make modules_install 8. cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-SuSE-14 cp /usr/src/linux/Sy test a lot of things on sdd and i have a SuSE for working on sdb The last thing to do now : compiling a kernel ( downloaded 2.4.0 + suse 2.4.0-15.gz ). test a lot of things on sdd and i have a SuSE for working on sdb The last thing to do now : compiling a kernel ( downloaded 2.4.0 + suse 2.4.0-15.gz ).stem.map /boot/System.map-2.4.0-SuSE-14 9. yast ---> check if aic7xxx+usbcore is in INITRD_MODULES 10. mk_initrd-2.4.0-SuSE-14 ( is this correct ???? and will this put initrd..... in /boot/ ?????? 11. edit lilo.conf and adding the lines : image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-SuSE-14 root = /dev/sdd2 label = lin-2.4.0-SuSE-14 initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.0-SuSE-14 12 /sbin/lilo Any suggestions are really welcome, specially for the patch file, reiserfs and mk_initrd. Meanwhile, I'll read some more howtos. TIA Filip.