I wonder if someone could give me a little hand here. I am not sure I am doing things right with respect to getting a new kernel installed in my SuSE6.4 installation. In fact I am not even sure where to get the appropriate files. But, here is what I did.. I picked up a number of files at : http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/suse_update/6.4/jerbek-2.2.16 Not sure which ones were the right ones so I got them all. I then ran rpm -i on the file called k_deflt. I may have spelled it wrong but it seemed to be a good one to try. This process created a new directory on /usr/src/, called linux-2.2.16.SuSE with a sym link to it called 'linux'. I noticed as well that it created a new in /lib/modules, called 2.2.16. Well, all this sorta told me that this was it. The kernel was installed and all I would have to do would be to run lilo and that would be it. Maybe even amend the lilo.conf file too. Not sure. But first I went over to the directory: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ to find bzImage. It was not there. I was going to copy it over to /boot but now I couldn't. No file! So, not knowing where this file was located, I went ahead and went back to /usr/src/linux and ran 'make menuconfig' and set out the options I wanted in the configuration and then ran: make dep clean bzImage && make modules modules_install. That all went well and with that I copied /usr/src/linuxSystem.map , and /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot. I then adjusted the /etc/lilo.conf file to include this new kernel and then ran lilo. I rebooted and it all came up. More or less. The sound doesn't work yet but that is a config problme of some sort. The network does so I am nearly there. Please tell me some one, if I have done this right, or does SuSE do things differently. Was I supposed to make up a new .config file, as I did when I typed in make menuconfig. Was I supposed to go and move the System.map and bzImage files over to /boot. Was I supposed to run 'lilo'. ?? And did I chose the right file k_deflt?? Anyone for comments please.. -- Ted Gervais Coldbrook, Nova Scotia Canada ve1drg@fox.nstn.ca 902.679.2253 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq