Well, I am trying to upgrade my Kernel (Red Hat 7, kernel 2.2 to kernel 2.4) because I am led to believe that then I might be able to get Linux to recognize my printer and modem.
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So I surfed around and found an article at
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel...4upgrade.html. The author upgraded to Linux 2.4 on Red Hat 7 and his platform was an AMD 700 MHZ. That is close to what I have (850 MHZ AMD), so it looked like a close match. Anyway, I get to the part where I am supposed to install util-linux-2.10o.tar.gz. The guy says "7. Next I ...grabbed util-linux-2,10o. I installed it
'./configure
'make'
'make install'
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Here's the problem: I don't know if this ./configure thing even exists. I cannot find it anywhere in any directories and bash tells me that it does not exist. I don't understand what the author is doing here.
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I looked at
http://www.lunuxquestions.org/questi...?threadid=2821, which seems to be a fairly authoritative How To. This is good, but it doesn't tell me how to install the packages that the "changes" file recommends. As yet, I don't understand how to do this. It seems that just unpacking a package is only the first step. Then it is necessary to install it. That's where I am stuck.
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I also have printed the document from
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/Kernel-HOWTO.html and have, yet another, approach which differs from the other stuff I have read. It appears that generic linux and Red Hat linux don't use the same directories for many of the executable programs required for upgrading.
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I think I can muddle through configuring the kernel. Where I am stuck is how to install all these packages that the "changes" file says I need.
Here's what I am working with as recommended by the "changes" file:
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Gnu C V 2.96 (I have this installed...I think)
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Gnu make 3.79.1 (ditto)
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binutils 2.10.90 (ditto)
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modutils - have 2.4.0 and have downloade V 2.4.2 but can't
install
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e2fsprogs - have 1.18 and have downloaded 1.19 but can't install
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reiserfsprogs - no idea what to do with this. "changes" file says to use 'reiserfsck2.1 | grep reisersprogs' to query what version is installed, but it doesn't work and I can't install.
pcmcia-cs have 3.1.19 and have downloaded 3.1.21 but can't install.
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PPP have 2.3.11 and have downloaded 2.4.0. "changes" file says to use pppd --version, but this doesn't work and I can't install the upgrade.
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isdn4k-utils-have 2.3.11 and have downloaded 3.1prel from a slackware site (will this work?)no idea what to do with this. "changes" file says to use isdncntrl>&1 | grep version' to query what version is installed, but it doesn't work and I can't install.
Lots of problems here. Would appreciate any help I can get.