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Old 02-16-2001, 11:50 PM   #1
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After fighting to get my system to recognize my US Robotics Linmodem, I decided to read the fine print. It states that the modem is supported with Kernel 2.3 and beyond.

I checked my system and I'm currently running 2.2.16 (straight off the RH disks). I searched the CDs and found beta versions of 2.4.0 packaged as RPMs.

I've read the man pages and several other articles on RPM, compiling kernels, and the like. I have followed the RPM directions, e.g.:

#rpm -ivh kernel.2.4.0-0.xx.i386.rpm

and all of the files were unpacked and put in /lib/modules/2.4.0/ .

At this point I cannot do anything with the data. I have followed the standard procedures to compile a kernel and have found afterwards that the bzImage does not exist.

My understanding is that the RPMs are packages that either update, patch, or install a program. Does this not work with a kernel?

If that's the case, then that brings up other questions. I've just finished reading about using kgcc instead of gcc. How can I make sure that kgcc is being used when I compile the kernel? Would I delete gcc and then symbolically link gcc to kgcc? Or what would be the best way to go about doing this?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Old 02-17-2001, 10:57 AM   #2
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When you upgrade by using RPMs you are NOT compiling the kernel. You can either download the kernel sources and compile or install the RPMs.

http://www.kernel.org - if you would like the sources.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/h...l-upgrade.html - if you would like to upgrade using RPMs.
 
Old 02-17-2001, 11:18 AM   #3
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Rpm is as you say a package form to install and update software,
but it also include the functionality of distributing the source code of a program with easy ways of compiling them.
The rpm packages are pre-compiled and the srpm packages are source code together with spec-files for the system to know how to compile.
 
  


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