Re: compiling kernel for an alphaserver (VERY OLD ONE)

[mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)]

Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py> writes:

> > > I've noted that the downloadable file is only 4 MB (a little less)... is
> > > that the FULL kernel???
> > 
> > Is that already compiled?  My kernels usually end up around 1.5 MB in
> > size, or ~2.7 MB uncompressed.
> well: 4,0M    patch-2.4.20.bz2
> 
> that's what du patch-2.4.20.bz2 returns....

That's the patch (i.e. difference) from 2.4.19 to 2.4.20.  The full
source is called linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2, but remember that 2.4.20 is
broken.

> > > I'm currently running RH7.0 on my alpha and It's an important machine in
> > > my network... it's the router and the http/sendmail/ftp/etc server...
> > > 
> > > I'd appreciate all the help you can give me here... I'm new to linux (at
> > > least at this level) and I certainly never did somthing like this... I
> > > don't want to screw THIS one... I'm already downloading RH9 that isn't
> > > supposed to have any trouble with the not-mdified kernel... so I think I
> > > can screw that one up a few times... also... it's an x86 intel... so
> > > LILO works and I can boot to any kernel I want.
> > 
> > Read about aboot.
> > 
> > If you're new at this stuff, you WILL screw it up once or twice before
> > you learn it.  That doesn't mean that you'll loose any data, of
> > course.
> But I will be able to boot to my good kernel... won't I?

Sooner or later, of course.  Which distribution is installed right now?

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Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net
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