KLUG Meeting Notes - 03/20/2001

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KALAMAZOO LINUX USER'S GROUP

MEMBERS AND GUESTS - COME JOIN US FOR A MEETING!!!
http://kalamazoolinux.org/meetings
WE MEET WEEKLY, EACH TUESDAY AT 7:00PM.
Our meeting site is Room 4202 of Dunbar Hall on
the campus of Western Michigan University.

Tuesday  March 20, 2001 7:00PM    
KLUG Meeting Notes - Summary

I.	PRESENTATION RECAP  
II.	NEXT WEEK'S MEETING INFO                   
III.	PROJECT REPORTS
IV.	GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Tonight's Meeting Moderator:
Chairperson - Dirk Bartley 

I.  PRESENTATION RECAP

THIS WEEK'S KLUG PRESENTATION: (18 active participants tonight)
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Compiling the new Linux 2.4.x kernel...
by Bruce Smith

Tonight's presentation covered the steps to build and
install the new 2.4.x series kernel, and what's new in
this release.    Avoid bugs and gotchas with the help of
someone who has already been down that road.

HOW TO COMPILE THE KERNEL:   {{Check Documentation}}
Intro-
Red Hat v7.0 says kernel 2.4 'ready.'  PPP that came
with that release is not 2.4 ready and should be updated.
You can get that update at: 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pppd/

Get the kernel at http://www.us.kernel.org
linux-2.4.2.tar.gz 28Mb file expands to 180Mb
Uncompress with tar -xzf
An ls will show a linux directory

move to usr/src/linux  
You might chg to linux-2.4.2
mv linux linux-2.4.2
If you do, make a symbolic link 
ln -s linux-2.4.2 linux