Subject: Re: Palm sync with YDL
From: Scott Frankel (leknarf@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 21:50:57 MDT
This is fabulous!!! I really appreciate the effort.
Scott
On Monday 10 September 2001 02:52, Paul J. Lucas wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Scott Frankel wrote:
> > That failed because I don't have ncurses installed. (What's ncurses?)
>
> You need the ncurses and ncurses-devel RPMs.
>
> > Then I tried make xconfig. That fails because it can't find some hdr
> > files: stdio.h, string.h, &c.
>
> You need the glibc-devel RPM.
>
> > Anyone have a quick, 1, 2, 3 on how to compile a kernel?
>
> Once you get all the RPMs, you:
>
> 1. cd /usr/src/linux
> 2. Edit the Makefile and make EXTRAVERSION be something else
> like:
>
> EXTRAVERSION = -sf
>
> i.e., your initials. Then
>
> 3. make xconfig
> 4. Load the old config from the configs subdirectory.
> 5. Add in IrDA as shown on my pages.
> 6. Save and exit.
> 7. make dep
> 8. make && make modules && make modules_install
> 9. Install the kernel:
>
> strip vmlinux
> cp vmlinux /boot/vmlinux-2.4.x-sf
> cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.x-sf
>
> (Substitute 2.4.x with your actual kernel version.)
>
> 10. Edit /etc/yaboot.conf and add an entry for you new kernel.
> 11. ybin
>
> Now reboot and select your new kernel.
>
> - Paul
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